Henri Bergson: Toward a
						Philosophy of Becoming

Khandker, Wahida

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“…In process organization studies, scholars base the idea of multiplicity on the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1950) and Gilles Deleuze (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987) (Khandker, 2017; Robinson, 2017). Bergson (1950) suggests that multiplicity can be understood in a quantitative way and in a qualitative way (Khandker, 2017; Nayak, 2008). Quantitative multiplicity refers to measurable things and is numerical in nature (e.g.…”

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Process Multiplicity and Process Dynamics: Weaving the Space of Possible Paths

Pentland

Mahringer

Dittrich

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Organization Theory

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In research on process organization studies, the concept of multiplicity is widely used, but a fundamental confusion about what process multiplicity means persists. As a result, we miss some of the potential of this concept for understanding process dynamics and process change. In this paper, we define process multiplicity as a duality of ‘one’ and ‘many’, and we conceptualize ‘the many’ as a space of possible paths encompassed by a process. We use the notion of paths to operationalize process multiplicity and make it accessible for empirical research. When we see process as a multiplicity, process change can be understood as expanding, shifting or contracting the space of possible paths. We suggest that this concept of process multiplicity also has implications for a range of other theoretical and practical topics, including standards, standardization and flexibility as well as process replication, management and resilience.

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“…Multiplicity has become a foundational concept in process research (Khandker, 2017; Langley & Tsoukas, 2017). From any perspective, processual phenomena have a kaleidoscopic quality that belies any simple description.…”

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Process Multiplicity and Process Dynamics: Weaving the Space of Possible Paths

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Dittrich

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Philosophical Organization Theory

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This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. —Plato, Theaetetus, §155d At the foundation of well-founded belief lies belief that is not founded. —Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, §253 Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity [ … ] The task of philosophy is to recover the totality obscured by the selection....

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Henri Bergson: Toward a Philosophy of Becoming

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Process Multiplicity and Process Dynamics: Weaving the Space of Possible Paths

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