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.

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...

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...

This volume sheds light on the current state of complex networks and nonlinear dynamics applied to the understanding of economic and social phenomena ranging from geographical economics to macroeconomics and finance, and its purpose is to give readers an overview of several interesting topics...

Effective management is crucial to the success of network organizations and can reduce the risk inherently associated with cooperative strategy. This contributed volume addresses the management of network organizations from both theoretical and practical perspectives, as well as an international...

Business Angel-Netzwerke (BAN) sind öffentliche oder private Organisationen, die einen Kommunikationskanal zwischen Business Angels und jungen Unternehmen herstellen sollen. Bisher ist nur wenig über die Organisation und den Erfolg von BAN bekannt. Robert Redweik erarbeitet auf Basis der...

Rolle eines Clustermanagements zur Erzielung von Kooperationserfolg in Clustern -- Relationale Quellen als Basis zur Erzielung von Clustererfolg -- Koordinationsmechanismen zur Aktivierung relationaler Quellen in Clustern -- Handlungsempfehlungen für Clusterakteure. .