Coming to grips with the actual complexity and fluidity of organization and management is a persistent problem for scholars and practitioners alike, which is why process issues have received renewed interest in recent years. This book, aimed at scholars and higher level students, frames some of these issues in novel and instructive ways.

Tor Hernes is Professor at the Norwegian School of Management, where he is also Head of the Department for Innovation and Economic Organization.

1. Organization in a Tangled World 2. Process Views of Organization 3. Alfred North Whitehead on Process 4. Bruno Latour on Relativizing the Social and the Becoming of Networks 5. Niklas Luhmann on Autopoiesis and Recursiveness in Social Systems 6. James March on Decision Processes and Organization: A Logic of Streams 7. Karl Weick on Organizing and Sensemaking 8. A Scheme for Process Based Organizational Analysis 9. Some Implications for Organizational Analysis