I'm only a few pages in to ready Birnbaum, chapter 2, but is it just me or is "organizations as organism" similar to "organizations as structure" - only maybe a little more intense. Anyway it's not what I was expecting.
My reading of this chapter is that an organization is like an organism in that it responds to external and internal stimuli; Birnbaum's black box analogy leads me to this conclusion - the complexity of the organism makes responses unpredictable at time, but perfectly predictable at other times, depending on how tightly or loosely structures within the organism are coupled.
That’s my two cents. Or, using current economic measures, my half cent.
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My reading of this chapter is that an organization is like an organism in that it responds to external and internal stimuli; Birnbaum's black box analogy leads me to this conclusion - the complexity of the organism makes responses unpredictable at time, but perfectly predictable at other times, depending on how tightly or loosely structures within the organism are coupled.
That’s my two cents. Or, using current economic measures, my half cent.
The analogy I use to help me separate organism from structural frame is that of a machine...
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