This book highlights the growing number of ‘post-bureaucratic’ firms that are abandoning hierarchical organizational forms in favor of self-managing teams. Addressing the need to outperform, these new organization types foresee the benefits of an organic structure with new and more indirect...

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

Einführung -- Grundsätzliche Vorgehensweise bei der PMI -- Prozesse und Unternehmensstruktur in der PMI -- Change Management in der PMI -- Der Begriff der Nachhaltigkeit -- Organisationstheoretische Überlegungen.

Ein wirkungsvolles Instrument für gelingendes Change Management, fundiert und nachvollziehbar dargestellt mit vielen Fallbeispielen. Dieses Buch zeigt anschaulich, wie systemische Aufstellungen als Instrument der Organisations- und Personalentwicklung genutzt werden können und somit den Aufbau...

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the economic and technical foundations for new organizational forms, relations and processes. It provides a wide range of underlying concepts and frameworks that help the reader understand the major forces driving organizational and marketplace...

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...

Introduction -- Geographical distance and international business -- Firm’s behavior and System of cities -- Internationalization of construction business -- Business strategies and Organization design -- Modeling for Organization design -- Research design and methodology -- Survey findings --...

This book attempts to characterize a new organizational form that is now visible in many companies as a substitute of previous forms related to mechanized or mechanistic standards. The book is based on the approach of organizational structure and on Henry Mintzberg’s work on organizational...

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...