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We human beings are not rational animals; we are emotional, languaging animals that use the operational coherences of language, through the constitution of rational systems, to explain and justify our actions, while in the process and without realizing it, we blind ourselves about the emotional grounding of all the rational domains that we bring fo...
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... we suggest some major internal organizational challenges that both organizational researchers and practitioners will be challenged to face in the foreseeable future. Of course, both the external pressures and the internal organizational challenges are interrelated (see Figure 1). (2007) suggests that the field of organization studies may be entering a fourth "invasion" era characterized by the growing influence of information technologies and biological advancements on social life and the by the earth's declining ability to sustain the current conduct of the rapidly growing human species. 2 We agree with this broad assessment and suggest that four trends will be decisive in shaping the organization of the future: ...