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What is an Organization?

In: Business Ethics and Organizational Values

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  • Ole Thyssen

    (Copenhagen Business School)

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The question ‘what is an organization’ often leads to a kind of embarrassment: everyone knows the answer, but it is difficult to find the right words to describe it. As a point of departure it might be agreed that an organization is a system. That just does not get us very far — a system of what? Hesitant suggestions might come up: a system of people or a system of things. Obviously, an organization needs to be populated, and even though virtual organizations exist without a tight connection to any place or objects, they still have to involve things: buildings, furniture, computers, telephones and fax machines. Even though the Internet is immaterial, it is inconceivable without material objects.

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  • Ole Thyssen, 2009. "What is an Organization?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Business Ethics and Organizational Values, chapter 4, pages 45-61, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-25093-2_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230250932_4
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