General Discussion: Economemetics and Agency, Creativity, and Normativity

Schlaile, Michael P.

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“…In this sense, they condition and can limit the creativity of organizational founders. If memetic determinism is taken to the extreme, the ethical responsibilities of individuals disappear (Schlaile, 2021b). Resolving this ambivalence regarding human agency is beyond the paper's scope, but as Schlaile (2021b) explains, human agency lies somewhere on a continuum between intentionality and memetic determinism.…”

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Pre-organization theory: an evolutionary approach integrating memetics, inducement-contribution theory and generalized darwinism

Powell

2024

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PurposeOrganization theory seeks to explain how people coordinate their behaviors to achieve common objectives, but it has offered little insight into how organizations emerge from such coordination. Fully understanding entities requires knowing their origins. The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to and to suggest an approach for fortifying a foundational weakness in organization theory: pre-organization theory.Design/methodology/approachTo develop pre-organization theory, this paper employs an evolutionary approach that integrates three theories. This paper first employs memetics to articulate a unit of selection, the i-memeplex, and next introduces inducement-contribution theory to tailor the i-memeplex to pre-organization, yielding a founder’s mental map for exchanges of inducements and contributions. It then applies generalized Darwinism to complete its evolutionary theory of pre-organization.FindingsMemetics, inducement-contribution theory, and generalized Darwinism can be integrated to create a promising theoretical solution, but further investigation is needed to assess the empirical and practical value of pre-organization theory.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to organization theory by (1) explicating a foundational weakness in organization theory – its lack of pre-organization theory – and (2) integrating a novel set of theories to develop an evolutionary theory of pre-organization.

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Section: Agency Creativity and Ethicsmentioning

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Pre-organization theory: an evolutionary approach integrating memetics, inducement-contribution theory and generalized darwinism

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2024

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“…Due to the natural selection of undirected variability, the gene‐based evolutionary algorithm is generally acknowledged to be blind, whereas it is difficult to avoid including some degree of human free choice in management solutions. As yet, there is no consensus evident in the memetic MOS literature, or wider memetic theory (Schlaile, 2021), regarding how to judge this matter. The difficulty of maintaining a consistent view is illustrated by Williams's (2004) critique of management consultants’ active promotion of new managerial memes, such as BPR and downsizing, to achieve their own desired outcomes, potentially at the expense of their clients’ organizations.…”

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A meme‐based research programme for management and organization studies

Gill

Price

2021

Int J Management Reviews

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Memes are proposed as cultural equivalents to genes, and meme-based research (memetics) has been undertaken to examine cultural aspects of management and organization studies (MOS). However, variable operationalization of the meme concept for a fragmented range of research topics has hampered the development of a coherent memetic MOS discipline. In particular, there is a largely unrecognized dilemma regarding the ontological status of the meme because it is unclear if the concept represents a real cultural gene-like entity or a gene metaphor. This paper provides a fresh view of the applications of the meme in MOS and the degree to which fundamental meme theory supports the memetic endeavour for the field. The paper aims to improve the accessibility of memetics to MOS scholars, whose interests involve cultural phenomena, by summarizing the heterogeneity in the extant research and providing the basis for the next stage of the memetic MOS research programme. A conceptualization is provided to show how applications of the meme can be made, either as a real gene-like entity or a gene metaphor. Ideas are provided for how research can be conducted that will contribute to MOS and support evaluation of the ontological status of the meme.How to cite this article: Gill, J. & Price, I. (2022) A meme-based research programme for management and organization studies.

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General Discussion: Economemetics and Agency, Creativity, and Normativity

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Pre-organization theory: an evolutionary approach integrating memetics, inducement-contribution theory and generalized darwinism

Pre-organization theory: an evolutionary approach integrating memetics, inducement-contribution theory and generalized darwinism

A meme‐based research programme for management and organization studies

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