Perspective—Finding the Organization in Organizational Theory: A Meta-Theory of the Organization as a Social Actor
指出组织理论缺乏对组织本身的研究，提出将组织视为社会行动者，并探讨其外部归因和意向性两个核心假设，为组织分析提供新视角。
Organization theory is a theory without a protagonist. Organizations are typically portrayed in organizational scholarship as aggregations of individuals, as instantiations of the environment, as nodes in a social network, as members of a population, or as a bundle of organizing processes. This paper hopes to highlight the need for understanding, explicating, and researching the enduring, noun-like qualities of the organization. We situate the organization in a broader social landscape by examining what is unique about the organization as a social actor. We propose two assumptions that underlie our conceptualization of organizations as social actors: external attribution and intentionality. We then highlight important questions and implications forming the core of a distinctively organizational analytical perspective.