Organizational dynamics
Creating and co-ordinating relations in an institutional and Organizational context Is part of the ERIM programme ORGANIZING FOR PERFORMANCE. It is a programme that started in 1999. It includes members of both the department of Organization and Personnel Management (OPM), and the department of Management of Technology and Innovation (MTI).
Both programmes focus on learning and change resulting from processes of interaction within and between organizations. This requires an interdisciplinary approach as interactions can be analysed from a social, cognitive and economic viewpoint. They are social with respect to sense making, values, expectations, goals, institutions, culture, and business systems. They are cognitive with respect to perception, understanding, learning. They are economic with respect to co-ordination, governance, competition, markets. In the social dynamics of organization there is an constant interaction between change and stability, creation and co-ordination, process and structure, exploration and exploitation.
From the field of economics,approaches from evolutionary and (old and new) institutional economics are employed while sociology provides theories on population ecology, network analysis, and institutional analysis. Finally, cognitive and social psychology are expected to offer further insights. Empirical research needs to be built on a variety of different methods, such as logical analysis, surveys, case studies, historical analysis, computer simulation.
The problem of organizational dynamics is closely linked to problems of organization of innovation and problems of entrepeneurship. The latter two subjects also form the research agenda of the department of Management and Innovation.
