دانلود رایگان مقاله برونو لاتور و نیکلاس لومان به عنوان نظریه پردازان سازمان

ABSTRACT

Bruno Latour and Niklas Luhmann are two authors who, not being management and organization scholars, have had a significant impact on MOS studies. Their works are even more appreciated in time, yet their influence has not crossed the Atlantic. The texts of the two authors, and the predecessor they evoke, demarcate a truly European development of management and organization theory“What did Luhmann and Latour do to European organization studies?” Were I writing this text 20 years ago, the question would have been “What did Foucault and Deleuze do to European organization studies?” But it is 2017, and as much as the insights of Deleuze and Foucault have been incorporated into organization studies to the point of being taken for granted, it is Latour e and ANT and Luhmann and self-observing autopoietic systems e that are the most original and visible influences today. In what follows, I am presenting my personal view (see also Czarniawska, 2005; 2014), and will mention some of my personal works influenced by those two authors, but I hope to do justice to at least some part of a still-growing number of organizational scholars who were similarly impressed by the works of those two. I also claim that, although the approaches of two authors were innovative and can be seen as radical, they were in harmony with earlier observations of management and organization scholars.