"Selbstorganisation" ist ein z. Zt. in unterschiedlichen Disziplinen populärer Begriff. Das Phänomen, wie in komplexen, dynamischen Systemen Ordnung entsteht, beschäftigt Naturwissenschaftler ebenso wie Soziologen und Ökonomen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird untersucht, ob und wie sich die...

The article gives an overview about scientific research on individual behavior in organizations. A number of reasons are discussed why it is difficult to obtain a coherent body of knowledge about this topic, some of them meta-theoretical and methodological, others political, organizational and...

The generational properties of organization theory are an increasing topic for analysis, usually in terms of what is addressed and how it is addressed. Some writers have alerted us to the importance of those social issues that are not addressed. Combining the idea of generational scholarship...

This paper proposes to study the constitution of organization at the interstice of order and disorder. By putting forward the processual, heterogeneous, and fragmented nature of organization, it explores the mediating role of communication in organizational becoming (Tsoukas and Chia, 2002)....