THE COGNITIVE SIDE OF GOVERNANCE

Abstract

In this chapter, governance in organizations is seen primarily as the governance of motivation of employees. It is argued that motivation is steered by cognitive frames (goal driven definitions of the situation), so that governance in organizations should focus mainly on the establishment and maintenance of frames. The chapter discusses how this may be done and how this cognitive approach to governance can be seen as an integration of transaction cost economics and the organizational behavior approach.

Citation

Lindenberg, S. (2003), "THE COGNITIVE SIDE OF GOVERNANCE", Buskens, V., Raub, W. and Snijders, C. (Ed.) The Governance of Relations in Markets and Organizations (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 20), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 47-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0733-558X(02)20003-8