Rediscovering Becoming
Insights from an Oriental Perspective on Process Organization Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23655779 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roland Chia (0000-0002-9728-0517, corresponding author), Robert Chia |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 112-139 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Process Sensemaking and Organizing (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594566.003.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W1542385323 |
| ISBN | 9780199594566 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 16 |
Process is an ambivalent term. Its use in organizational research and theorizing is widespread. Yet, there are important subtle differences in how the term is understood. Process may be construed either as an epiphenomenon of substantial organizational entities or as a primary condition of reality from which the phenomenon of organization spontaneously emerges. Each perspective gives rise to a different theoretical focus and agenda for the field of organization studies. In this chapter, I explore new avenues for understanding process and organization. I show that the idea of ultimate reality as formless, undifferentiated, and ceaselessly changing has been a basic intuition of the ancient Oriental world since time immemorial; one that remains widespread and influential in shaping contemporary Eastern mentalities and dispositions. I further show how this Oriental metaphysical attitude towards process, flux, and self‐transformation enables us to better appreciate the phenomenon of social organization as essentially the cumulative effect of a stabilizing, simple‐locating, and identity‐creating human impulse. From a process organization perspective then, organization studies ought to be more concerned with analyzing the dominant organizational mentalities involved in structuring social reality than with the analysis of “organizations.”
Ambivalence · Epiphenomenon · Epistemology · Institutional theory · Management · Organization studies · Organizational field · Organizational theory · Perspective (graphical) · Phenomenon · Political science · Process (computing) · Social organization · Social science · Sociology · Structuring · Global and Cross-Cultural Management · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Management Theory and Practice · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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A Treatise on Efficacy
Evolution and Social Life
Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason
The Logic of Practice
The Order of Things
The Chinese Eye
From Knowledge-Creation to the Perfecting of Action
Zen in the Art of Archery
The Perception of the Environment
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |