Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems.

Abstract

A comparative model of organizations as interpretation systems is proposed. The model describes four interpretation modes: enacting, discovering, undirected viewing, and conditioned viewing, Each modes 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, an decision making. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA132486

Entities

People

  • Karl E. Weick
  • Richard L. Daft

Organizations

  • Texas A&M University

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Boundaries
  • Business Administration
  • Clothing
  • Corporations
  • Data Acquisition
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • New York
  • Observation
  • Organization Theory
  • Organizational Structure
  • Perception
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Public Administration

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design