Organizations as Enacted Systems: Learning, Knowing and Change
About
Two arrows in a circle, representing communication. (Image courtesy of Wanda Orlikowski.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Peter Senge
Prof. Wanda Orlikowski
MIT Course Number
15.963
As Taught In
Fall 2002
Level
Graduate
Course Features
Course Description
The course is structured around a core of fundamental concepts concerning how we view organizations, and the application of these concepts to basic domains of action crucial for contemporary businesses: sensemaking, learning, knowing, and change. We view organizations as enacted systems, wherein humans are continually shaping the structures that influence their action in turn. In other words, we create the systems that then create us.