Environment, analysis, and change: a simplified trichotomy for understanding organizations

<p>The importance of organizations, whose most distinctive characteristic is their ubiquity, is that they are means and collective actors at the same time. However, due to their very nature, organizational phenomena are varied and multi-causal. In this regard, different theoretical views also...

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Autores principales:	Adrián Orozco Lechuga, Teresita de Jesús Sabido Domínguez
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Publicado:	Universidad Central de Venezuela 2021
Materias:	Management. Industrial management HD28-70 Business HF5001-6182
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:24119c5837f54ec39ccbd00193c0dc612021-11-25T23:41:45ZEnvironment, analysis, and change: a simplified trichotomy for understanding organizations2542-3142https://doaj.org/article/24119c5837f54ec39ccbd00193c0dc612021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttp://saber.ucv.ve/ojs/index.php/rev_GID/article/view/22710https://doaj.org/toc/2542-3142<p>The importance of organizations, whose most distinctive characteristic is their ubiquity, is that they are means and collective actors at the same time. However, due to their very nature, organizational phenomena are varied and multi-causal. In this regard, different theoretical views also offer different and various explanations to the same problem. However, they should not be considered contradictory approaches, or as correct or incorrect, but auxiliary and complementary. The abundance of organizational theory should allow a functional relationship between the conditions of the environment and the appropriate administrative techniques to achieve the organization's objectives to be established. Faced with the heterogeneous aspects to study organizations, this article presents a trichotomic conception, under a theoretical approach, which simplifies the understanding of organizations to understand them and conceive a broad panorama of organizational events. First, the organizational environment, conceived as an environment with three ambits, is discussed: social, economic, and political. Subsequently, the organizational analysis is conceived from three different levels: psychosocial, organizational or structural, and ecological. Finally, organizational change is visualized under a classic model widely cited in the literature: Kurt Lewin's three-phase model, which proposes to unfreeze, move or change, and re-freeze the organization in a new state. Finally, it is concluded that simplifying does not mean eliminating or omitting, but rather an arbitrary idealization as a powerful resource to conceptualize management and change in organizations.</p> <strong>Keywords:</strong> Organizations; organizational environment; organizational analysis; organizational change; management.Adrián Orozco LechugaTeresita de Jesús Sabido DomínguezUniversidad Central de VenezuelaarticleManagement. Industrial managementHD28-70BusinessHF5001-6182ESRevista Gestión I+D, Vol 6, Iss 2, Pp 384-404 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Management. Industrial management HD28-70 Business HF5001-6182 Adrián Orozco Lechuga Teresita de Jesús Sabido Domínguez Environment, analysis, and change: a simplified trichotomy for understanding organizations
description	<p>The importance of organizations, whose most distinctive characteristic is their ubiquity, is that they are means and collective actors at the same time. However, due to their very nature, organizational phenomena are varied and multi-causal. In this regard, different theoretical views also offer different and various explanations to the same problem. However, they should not be considered contradictory approaches, or as correct or incorrect, but auxiliary and complementary. The abundance of organizational theory should allow a functional relationship between the conditions of the environment and the appropriate administrative techniques to achieve the organization's objectives to be established. Faced with the heterogeneous aspects to study organizations, this article presents a trichotomic conception, under a theoretical approach, which simplifies the understanding of organizations to understand them and conceive a broad panorama of organizational events. First, the organizational environment, conceived as an environment with three ambits, is discussed: social, economic, and political. Subsequently, the organizational analysis is conceived from three different levels: psychosocial, organizational or structural, and ecological. Finally, organizational change is visualized under a classic model widely cited in the literature: Kurt Lewin's three-phase model, which proposes to unfreeze, move or change, and re-freeze the organization in a new state. Finally, it is concluded that simplifying does not mean eliminating or omitting, but rather an arbitrary idealization as a powerful resource to conceptualize management and change in organizations.</p> <strong>Keywords:</strong> Organizations; organizational environment; organizational analysis; organizational change; management.
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title	Environment, analysis, and change: a simplified trichotomy for understanding organizations
title_short	Environment, analysis, and change: a simplified trichotomy for understanding organizations
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Environment, analysis, and change: a simplified trichotomy for understanding organizations

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