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...

Über Ursachen für die stagnierende Verbreitung von betrieblicher Gesundheitsförderung (BGF) wird vielfältig spekuliert. Judith Goldgruber untersucht unter Einbezug von Organisationstheorien, ob systematische Erklärungsansätze in der Unterschiedlichkeit der Organisationen liegen. Sie...

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...

Die Integration von Organisationen, d.h. das Wissen um deren "richtige" Zusammenführung zu einem neuen Ganzen, zählt zu den zentralen Fähigkeiten von Organisationen bzw. von deren Management. In der betrieblichen Praxis führen Integrationen allerdings oft nicht zum erwarteten Erfolg. Michael...

Im Mittelpunkt des Wissensmanagements steht die Fähigkeit, individuelles Wissen nutzbar zu machen, um Organisationsziele zu erreichen. Gelingt es, exzellente Problemlösungen zu identifizieren und in kurzer Zeit innerhalb einer Organisation zu transferieren, lässt sich deren...