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...

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...

Bedeutung von Organisation -- Arbeiten in Gruppen und Teams -- Strukturdimensionen der Organisation -- Ablauforganisation -- Organisationsanalyse -- Organisationstheorien -- Neuere Entwicklungen der Organisation -- Change Management -- Projektmanagement.

Lead yourself – was ist mir wichtig -- So vielfältig entwickeln sich heute Karrieren -- Den eigenen Weg in den Fokus nehmen: Adlerblick und Vogelperspektive -- Build your own brand -- Aus der richtigen Haltung heraus führen -- Rebranding power: Macht mögen lernen -- Nicht zu weich, nicht zu...

The recent past shows a growing interest in cultural specificities. This new-found focus has its origin in reports about corporate practices indicating that globally standardized information systems are not effective in every culture. One explanation for this observation is that information use...

This volume explores the work environment in multinational corporations. To do so, it integrates studies on the organizational sciences, cross-cultural management, positive psychology and sociology within a single comprehensive framework. Twenty-two authors from six countries identify the...