Year
2014
Abstract
Charles Peirce is the father of Pragmatism and Semiotics, not a chance combination. Since “every thought is a sign”, and so is every act, his theory of triadic sign serves as a foundation for his theory of thought and action. Breaking with a long-standing Western view of meaning as a structural correspondence, Peirce views meaning as the process of mean-ing and “mak-ing something mean”. Thought is rooted in transformative action in the inherently temporal process of inquiry. This chapter presents key concepts of Peircean semiotics – mediation and semiosis – and their process orientation. It then analyzes the major contribution they can make to organization studies inspired by process, practice, dialogism, performativity and sociomateriality issues.
LORINO, P. (2014). Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914). Dans: The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy & Organization studies. 1st ed. Oxford University Press, pp. 143-165.