This book examines and critiques classical approaches to strategic analysis, whilst exploring alternative methods which utilise ecosystem and platform concepts, as well as chaos and complexity theories. The innovative study provides a critique of the neoclassical Newtonian school of strategy,...

How can organizations and their managers face the tremendous complexity of the current environment? How can their compliance with the requirements of sustainability be evaluated? And how can new organizations be structured to ensure their viability? This book addresses these questions in a very...

The last two decades increasingly have challenged the field of management by confronting it with rapidly growing levels of dynamism, inter-connectedness, and complexity. Systems-based management approaches, their promise already proven, offer great potentials for influencing and coping with this...

Das Konzept dynamischer Fähigkeiten gilt im Strategischen Management als Hoffnungsträger der theoretischen Entwicklung und ist dennoch umstritten. Heike Marita Hölzner untersucht das theoretische Fundament dieser Fähigkeitsmodelle. Sie entwickelt eine Heuristik zur Einordnung der...

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...

1. Einleitung -- Einführung in die wesentliche Problematik -- Bisheriger Wissens- und Forschungsstand zum Thema -- Gang der Untersuchung 2. Untersuchung grundlegender Wissenschaften zu Organisations- und Prozesstheorien -- Grundsatzüberlegungen -- Organisationstheoretische Grundlagen --...

What are organizations? What is their point? How should one design successful organizations? Although these questions have been treated by many authors in many different ways, this book offers a new perspective. In a nutshell, the book combines cybernetics, social systems theory and...