Institutions Incorporated draws together aspects of human and organizational corporeality and links them to institutions. Throughout European anthropology and culture the body has been conceptualized as the 'dark side' to soul and reason. This book explores the 'dark side' of institutions, their...

Individuum und Organisation - Revisited: Neue Konturen eines organisationswissenschaftlichen Forschungsfeldes? -- Organizational Legitimacy as Deliberation: Towards a New Political Role of the Business Firm -- Elitenzirkulation und organisationaler Wandel. Ein Beitrag zu einer politischen...

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...