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What Makes Organization?

Resuscitating organization theory/revitalizing organizational life

What Makes Organization? is a research programme funded by the Velux Foundation and located in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School.
The programme which consists of five discrete but inter-related projects will run for three years from January, 2011.
Its main aim is to investigate the historical and contemporary ability of Organization Theory (OT) both to analyze and to intervene in the experience of organizational life. This aim will be pursued through two mutually related strands of research.
The first of these involves analyzing the changing relationship between organization theory as an intellectual and practical discipline and the problems besetting modern organizations.
The second strand involves an historical analysis of classic, albeit largely forgotten or ignored, organization theories in order to explore their potential for helping to address contemporary organizational and societal concerns.
Overall, a key objective of the programme is to revitalize Organization Theory as a practical enterprise centrally concerned with describing, analyzing and intervening in organizational life.

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Department of Organization
Copenhagen Business School
Kilevej 14A
2000 Frederiksberg
 

Projektleder: Paul du Gay



Sidst opdateret af Søren Vidmar 03.01.2012