Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems
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Title
Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems
Abstract/Description
A comparative model of organizations as interpretation systems is proposed. The model describes four interpretation modes: enacting, discovering, undirected viewing, and conditioned viewing. Each mode is determined by (1) management's beliefs about the environment and (2) organizational intrusiveness. Interpretation modes are hypothesized to be associated with organizational differences in environmental scanning, equivocality reduction, strategy, and decision making.
Author/creator
Date
In publication
Volume
9
Issue
2
Pages
284-295
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Theoretical
Keywords
Open access/full-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
0363-7425
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Citation
Daft, R. L., & Weick, K. E. (1984). Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems. Academy of Management Review, 9(2), 284–295. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1984.4277657
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