Frame shifting, sense making and accounting

Sten Jönsson
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Abstract

How does one choose between paradigms? Is there a neutral language that can be used in translating descriptions of phenomena from one frame of reference (functional organization) to a sensible description within another frame of reference (local integration)?

The empirical content of this problem complex is illustrated through a case study of the organizing efforts of two actors in an experiment with a new principle of local coordination across departmental frontiers in a professionally sectorized structure. The analysis of the material focuses on how the respondents try to make sense of the processes they initiate and participate in, and what role a sophisticated accounting system played.

By shifting frames of reference the actor, in this case a change agent, can construct decision packages that are meaningful also to actors in the old organizational structure. Agreements, after political processes, across jurisdictional frontiers are confirmed through changes in the budget/accounting system.

框架转换,理解和核算
一个人如何在范式之间做出选择?是否存在一种中立的语言,可用于将对现象的描述从一个参照系(功能性组织)翻译为另一个参照系(局部整合)中的合理描述?这个问题综合体的经验内容是通过一个案例研究来说明的,这个案例研究是在一个专业部门化的结构中,在一个新的跨部门边界的地方协调原则的实验中,两个行动者的组织努力。对材料的分析侧重于受访者如何试图理解他们发起和参与的过程,以及复杂的会计系统所起的作用。通过转换参照系,参与者,在这种情况下是一个变更代理,可以构建对旧组织结构中的参与者也有意义的决策包。在政治进程之后,跨司法管辖区的协议通过预算/会计制度的变化得到确认。
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