This paper summarises my PhD research project and was presented at the Doctoral Workshop during the British Academiy of Management Conference 2014.

Abstract: This research’s purpose is to further the knowledge about organisations understood as artefacts and how this can help the academic community to better understand the properties of that artefact in contrast to other perceptions of organisations (as living systems, closed systems, mechanical, created by founder and influenced by environment). This is not so much a contrasting perspective, as it is a complementary perspective, adding to the many understandings of organizations that scholars have articulated.