'Missing Organizational Linkages' considers how actions among individuals and groups affect the organization as a whole, and vice versa. It shows that changes in groups or individuals result in improvements in organizational effectiveness

What explains the great variability in economic growth and political development across countries? Institutional and organizational analysis has developed since the 1970s into a powerful toolkit, which argues that institutions and norms rather than geography, culture, or technology are the...

This book clarifies the application of cybernetic ideas, particularly those of Beer's Viable System Model, to organizational diagnosis and design. Readers learn to appreciate the relevance of seeing the systemic coherence of the world. The book argues that many of the problems we experience...

Gutes Management verlangt nach einem systemischen Ansatz, denn alles ist mit allem verbunden. Dieses Buch zeigt praxisgerechte Methoden und Vorgehensweisen, um die Problemlösungskompetenz und damit die Stabilität im Unternehmen zu erhöhen - und damit in der Wirtschaft als Ganzem. Konkrete...

This book synthesizes the existing quantitative evidence on organizational design, bringing together the growing stream of theoretical work on the economics of firms' organization and available empirical findings produced by qualitative work in management, business history and organizational...