著者

星井 進介 Hoshii Shinsuke

出版者

新潟大学大学院現代社会文化研究科

雑誌

現代社会文化研究 (ISSN:13458485)

巻号頁・発行日

no.52, pp.19-32, 2011-12

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In The Social Psychology of Organizing, 2nd edition, Karl E. Weiek described an organizing theory based on flows, changes, connections, interdependence, and social interaction. This paper examined the definition and process of organizing proposed by Weick. The process of organizing and how organization emerges in Weick's book are discussed. Organizing was defined by Weick as a consensually validated grammar for reducing equivoeality by means of sensible interlocked behaviors. Weick showed that an organizing process comprised four elements : ecological change, enactment, selection, and retention. Organizations continuously manage some equivocalities, ignore others, and create new ones by interlocked behaviors and organizing processes. Equivocal infomation triggers organizing, in other words. Weick showed that environments can be considered as the outcomes of organizing and as the creations of actors within the organization in the relationship between an organization and its environment.