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Ambiguously organized social actors, termed 'organizational monsters,' operate beyond formal organizations to scatter collective actorhood and reproduce a technicist social order, rendering systemic responsibility impossible and meaningless. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

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Conceptualize 'organizational monsters' and explain how their diffuse structure produces systemic irresponsibility within capitalist societies.

September 2, 2026Journal of Organizational SociologyOpen Access

Organizational Monsters and the Shaping of Systemic Irresponsibility

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Theoretical analysis reveals how diffuse organizational entities drive systemic irresponsibility across capitalist societies, highlighting structural barriers to collective accountability.

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Conceptualize 'organizational monsters' and explain how their diffuse structure produces systemic irresponsibility within capitalist societies.
Synthesized frameworks from organizational sociology and critical management studies to evaluate entities that operate beyond formal organizational boundaries.
Analyzed structural interactions between organizationality, dispersed strategizing, and autonomous technicist systems.
Demonstrated that organizational monsters scatter collective actorhood across time, space, and operational layers, rendering accountability structurally impossible.
Identified mechanisms through which these entities undermine ecological, social, and semiotic systems within an autonomous technical order.
Outlined the conceptual foundations for a politics of refusal within organizational and management scholarship.

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Héloïse Berkowitz (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e237c562ede874ec62b4 https://doi.org/10.1515/joso-2025-0045

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Theoretical analysis reveals how diffuse organizational entities drive systemic irresponsibility across capitalist societies, highlighting structural barriers to collective accountability.

Organizational Monsters and the Shaping of Systemic Irresponsibility

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Organizational Monsters and the Shaping of Systemic Irresponsibility

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