Definition of an Organization

Definition of an Organization 1:
An organizationis an entity,where two or more people work together to achieve a goal or a common objective.
Definition of an Organization 2:
An organization is a stable, formal structure that takes resources from the environment and process them to produce outputs.
Definition of an Organization 3:
Organizations are formal legal entities with internal rules and procedures that must abide by laws.
Definition of an Organization 4:
Is a social arrangement which persues collective goals which controls own performance and which boudary separating it from its environment.

References:Management Information Systems Managing the Ditital Firm,2006, Kenneth C.Laudon, Jane P.Laodon, 10th Edition[accessed on 20th January 2009]

My view of an Organization:"An organization is a boudary of system where two or more people work together to achive a common goal or an common objective. The organizational system have common legal entities with internal rules and procedures that must abide by laws,also an organization have a structure that takes resources from the environment and process them to produce outputs"

Features of an organization:
1.Bureaucracies2.Clear-cut division of labor3.Specialization4.Business process5.Organizational culture6.Organizational politics7.Sorrounding environment8.Stuctures9.Goals10.Consituencies11.Leadership style

Community of Practice (CoP)

Knowledge is often thought to be the property of individuals, a great deal of knowledge is both produced and held collectively. Such knowledge is readily generated when people work together in the tightly knit groups known as “communities of practice.”

Reference:
http://www.solonline.org/attachmentview!/490278/8814185/p28.pdf