Introducing Organizations as Social Systems Conducting Experiments -- Introducing Organizations as Social Systems Conducting Experiments -- The experimental and social arche of organizations -- The Experimental Arche: Ashby’s Cybernetics -- The Experimental Arche Continued: Von Foerster on...

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...

In diesem einführenden Lehrbuch erhält der Leser einen Überblick über das breite Thema Organisation und die damit verbundenen Fragestellungen. Neben den zugehörigen Teilgebieten wie Aufbauorganisation, Prozessorganisation ist hier ein Kapitel "Verhalten" angefügt, das die Rolle des...

Paradoxes emerge everywhere in organizational theory and management practice. This book is a theoretically grounded presentation of the strategic and historical context of organizational paradoxes, exploring the paradoxes in organizational management and the available tactics to manage them....

This original and thought-provoking book takes a new approach to engaging with organizational theory and making sense of organizations. Consisting of seven plays written by the author, each is followed by a stimulating commentary by a noted scholar, exploring the wider contexts and values of...

In a networked world which is characterized by interactive value creation, traditional organizational boundaries loose importance in favor of processes of distributed organizing. Therefore, thinking about and designing organizations requires going beyond designing hierarchical structures and...

Das bewährte moderne Lehrbuch zur Organisationslehre. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Grundprobleme der organisatorischen Gestaltung wie Aufgabenstrukturierung, Interaktion von Organisation und Umwelt, emergente Phänomene in Organisationen, organisatorischer Wandel.Didaktisch gekonnt aufbereitet...