The last two decades increasingly have challenged the field of management by confronting it with rapidly growing levels of dynamism, inter-connectedness, and complexity. Systems-based management approaches, their promise already proven, offer great potentials for influencing and coping with this...

Gutes Management verlangt nach einem systemischen Ansatz, denn alles ist mit allem verbunden. Dieses Buch zeigt praxisgerechte Methoden und Vorgehensweisen, um die Problemlösungskompetenz und damit die Stabilität im Unternehmen zu erhöhen - und damit in der Wirtschaft als Ganzem. Konkrete...

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...

How can organizations and their managers face the tremendous complexity of the current environment? How can their compliance with the requirements of sustainability be evaluated? And how can new organizations be structured to ensure their viability? This book addresses these questions in a very...

Preface -- Introduction -- Administrative Processes .- Planning and Scheduling P&S -- Organization Management OM -- Procurement Management PRM -- Earned Value Management EVM -- Quality Management QM -- Problem Management PBM -- Risk Management RM -- Change Management CM -- Integration Management...

Novel pathway of regional economy development -- Pedigree of model technologies -- Greenhouse gas control -- Ecological capacity evaluation -- Regional economic prediction -- Energy structure optimization -- Land resource utilization -- Industrial structure adjustment -- Low carbon industrial...

This book clarifies the application of cybernetic ideas, particularly those of Beer's Viable System Model, to organizational diagnosis and design. Readers learn to appreciate the relevance of seeing the systemic coherence of the world. The book argues that many of the problems we experience...