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Abstract: This article presents a formal reconstruction of James D. Thompson's classic contribution to organization theory, Organizations in Action. The reconstruction explicates the underlying argumentation structure for Thompson's propositions---literally, theorems or problems to be demonstrated. This allows Thompson's propositions to be derived as theorems in a deductive theory. As it turns out, the formal theory is based on general assumptions using only few primitive concepts. In addition, this... (Update)
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@article{ kamps99reducing,
author = {Jaap Kamps and L\'aszl\'o P\'olos},
title = {Reducing Uncertainty: A formal theory of
\emph{Organizations in Action}},
journal = "American Journal of Sociology",
year = "1999",
volume = "104",
OPTnumber = "6",
pages = "1776--1812",
url = {citeseer.ist.psu.edu/4925.html} }
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