Faces: Revista de Administração (Dec 2008)

A THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONAL COGNITION:PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS

  • Dr. Andrew M. Tobias,
  • Dr. Farley Simon Nobre,
  • Prof. Dr. David S. Walker

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 4

Abstract

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Organizations and the environment change over time. Not only change their structures and processes of functioning, but also the perspectives that researchers have about them over periods of time. Hence, scientists need to review theories of organizations in order to formulate new solutions to the problems of the present. It is in such a direction of thinking that this paper contributes by introducing new concepts, principles and propositions towards a theory of organizational cognition. It put forwards new perspectives about the organization and the environment, and also about the relations between them through the concept of cognition. From these backgrounds, this research also contributes by presenting the concepts of organizational intelligence and autonomy, hierarchic levels of cognition in organizational systems, along with cognitive definitions and complex models for the organization and the environment.

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