Virtualization as a Mode of Organizing: Ontology, Becoming, Modulation.
In organizational theories inspired by process ontologies of Spinoza, Bergson, or Deleuze, an organization only seems to be the effect of ontological forces and therefore exist only retroactively and derivatively. Simply put, process ontologies tend to overemphasize the virtual, active ontological f...
| Publicado en: | Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 70 - 88 |
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TAMARA: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science
2020
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