Mary Jo Hatch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1316910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Jo Hatch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Hatch |
| SIGNATURE | HATCH M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6886-9528 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1944 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Organization Theory
Organizational culture
This chapter begins with definitions of organization theory that come from cultural anthropology. It then applies them to culture at the societal level and focuses on organizational culture. The chapter reflects issues that provoke debate on cultural sharing, subcultures, levels of analysis, and culture clashes. It also provides a brief history of the tensions that arose between modern and symbolic organization theorists, covering the main theori…
Organization–environment relations
This chapter recounts how organization theorists took note of the idea that an organization is embedded in a supersystem when the general systems theory introduced the notion of levels of analysis in the 1950s. It discusses the economic exchange and competition that had long been used to explain organizational behaviour and performance, broadening the idea in the 1950s and 1960s to include other factors that soon revolutionized organization theor…
Identity, Organizational
This article describes organizational identity in terms of synchronic and diachronic approaches.
Organizations
From the publisher. Organizations are everywhere. We meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But we rarely give much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future. How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do they contribute to and detract from the meaningfulness of ou…
What does it mean to be an organization?
‘What does it mean to be an organization?’ focuses on how meaning is created in organizations. Meaning derives from the social construction of reality — how reality is defined by individual interpretations of things and events, and sensemaking — assigning meaning to this reality. This meaning gives rise to institutions, which are mechanisms and behaviours that control society. They can only do this if they are seen to be legitimate—itself another…
Organizational identity
Is Ethnography Jazz
Is Ethnography Jazz
In this article, we extend and refine Van Maanen's metaphorical insight that ethnographers learn interpretive skills `more akin to learning to play a musical instrument than to solving a puzzle' by focusing on the parallels between ethnography and jazz. Our central argument is that ethnographers are engaged in a dual quest for self-identity and empathy that is improvised in ways resembling the musical `conversation' between performing jazz musici…
The dynamics of organizational identity
While many organizational researchers make reference to Mead's theory of social identity, none have explored how Mead's ideas about the relationship between the "I" and the "me" might be extended to identity processes at the organizational level of analysis. In this paper we define organizational analogues for Mead's "I" and "me" and explain how these two phases of organizational identity are related. In doing so we bring together existing theory…
Complex Thinking, Complex Practice
Complexity is not only a feature of the systems we study, it is also a matter of the way in which we organize our thinking about those systems. This second-order complexity invites consideration of the modes of thinking we use to theorize about complexity, and in this article we develop the idea of second-order complexity using Jerome Bruner's contrast between logico-scientific and narrative modes of thinking. Using Bruner's framework, we examine…
Photocopylore at work
In this paper we develop a model of the photocopylore process consisting of selection, reproduction and distribution with further potential for consumption and elaboration. After explaining and illustrating these practices, which are always aesthetic and sometimes political, we discuss how our model contributes to theorizing social construction processes, both in terms of the creation and maintenance of organizational and transorganizational comm…
Reconstructing organizational culture or welcome to valhalla
Organizational Communication and Cultural Vision
Spontaneous Humour as an Indicator of Paradox and Ambiguity in Organizations
Assuming that humour is built on a foundation of recognized contradiction, incongruity and incoherence, then it seems plausible that humour points to dis course capable of revealing the nature and substance of paradox and ambiguity- a topic of increasing interest to students of organization. This paper presents the method and results of a case study illustrating the interpretive possibilities of combining humour analysis with the study of paradox…
The Effect of the War on the Philosophy of the Educational Policies Commission
Complex Thinking, Complex Practice
Complexity is not only a feature of the systems we study, it is also a matter of the way in which we organize our thinking about those systems. This second-order complexity invites consideration of the modes of thinking we use to theorize about complexity, and in this article we develop the idea of second-order complexity using Jerome Bruner's contrast between logico-scientific and narrative modes of thinking. Using Bruner's framework, we examine…
Spontaneous Humour as an Indicator of Paradox and Ambiguity in Organizations
Assuming that humour is built on a foundation of recognized contradiction, incongruity and incoherence, then it seems plausible that humour points to dis course capable of revealing the nature and substance of paradox and ambiguity- a topic of increasing interest to students of organization. This paper presents the method and results of a case study illustrating the interpretive possibilities of combining humour analysis with the study of paradox…
The Effect of the War on the Philosophy of the Educational Policies Commission
Spontaneous Humour as an Indicator of Paradox and Ambiguity in Organizations
Assuming that humour is built on a foundation of recognized contradiction, incongruity and incoherence, then it seems plausible that humour points to dis course capable of revealing the nature and substance of paradox and ambiguity- a topic of increasing interest to students of organization. This paper presents the method and results of a case study illustrating the interpretive possibilities of combining humour analysis with the study of paradox…
Reconstructing organizational culture or welcome to valhalla
Organizational Communication and Cultural Vision
Photocopylore at work
In this paper we develop a model of the photocopylore process consisting of selection, reproduction and distribution with further potential for consumption and elaboration. After explaining and illustrating these practices, which are always aesthetic and sometimes political, we discuss how our model contributes to theorizing social construction processes, both in terms of the creation and maintenance of organizational and transorganizational comm…
Complex Thinking, Complex Practice
Complexity is not only a feature of the systems we study, it is also a matter of the way in which we organize our thinking about those systems. This second-order complexity invites consideration of the modes of thinking we use to theorize about complexity, and in this article we develop the idea of second-order complexity using Jerome Bruner's contrast between logico-scientific and narrative modes of thinking. Using Bruner's framework, we examine…
The dynamics of organizational identity
While many organizational researchers make reference to Mead's theory of social identity, none have explored how Mead's ideas about the relationship between the "I" and the "me" might be extended to identity processes at the organizational level of analysis. In this paper we define organizational analogues for Mead's "I" and "me" and explain how these two phases of organizational identity are related. In doing so we bring together existing theory…
Is Ethnography Jazz
Is Ethnography Jazz
In this article, we extend and refine Van Maanen's metaphorical insight that ethnographers learn interpretive skills `more akin to learning to play a musical instrument than to solving a puzzle' by focusing on the parallels between ethnography and jazz. Our central argument is that ethnographers are engaged in a dual quest for self-identity and empathy that is improvised in ways resembling the musical `conversation' between performing jazz musici…
Organizational identity
Organizations
From the publisher. Organizations are everywhere. We meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But we rarely give much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future. How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do they contribute to and detract from the meaningfulness of ou…
What does it mean to be an organization?
‘What does it mean to be an organization?’ focuses on how meaning is created in organizations. Meaning derives from the social construction of reality — how reality is defined by individual interpretations of things and events, and sensemaking — assigning meaning to this reality. This meaning gives rise to institutions, which are mechanisms and behaviours that control society. They can only do this if they are seen to be legitimate—itself another…
Identity, Organizational
This article describes organizational identity in terms of synchronic and diachronic approaches.
Organization Theory
Organizational culture
This chapter begins with definitions of organization theory that come from cultural anthropology. It then applies them to culture at the societal level and focuses on organizational culture. The chapter reflects issues that provoke debate on cultural sharing, subcultures, levels of analysis, and culture clashes. It also provides a brief history of the tensions that arose between modern and symbolic organization theorists, covering the main theori…
Organization–environment relations
This chapter recounts how organization theorists took note of the idea that an organization is embedded in a supersystem when the general systems theory introduced the notion of levels of analysis in the 1950s. It discusses the economic exchange and competition that had long been used to explain organizational behaviour and performance, broadening the idea in the 1950s and 1960s to include other factors that soon revolutionized organization theor…
Sociology (11 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works)