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...

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...

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 book examines trends and challenges in research on IT governance in public organizations, reporting innovative research and new insights in the theories, models and practices within the area. As we noticed, IT governance plays an important role in generating value from organization’s IT...

This book examines the relationships among leadership, the quality of the management process and business results. Drawing from the pioneering contributions of Chester I. Barnard, this book defines the role and characteristics of an effective and efficient manager in the new knowledge economy....

Introducing a theory of workplace dignity into the field of management studies, this innovative new book presents an alternative paradigm based on principles of human dignity which is integrated into a theoretical approach to the topic. The author addresses and analyses the causes and...

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...