Ch. 1. Organizations and organizational effectiveness -- Ch. 2. Stakeholders, managers, and ethics -- Ch. 3. Managing in a changing global environment -- Ch. 4. Basic challenges of organizational design -- Ch. 5. Designing organizational structure : authority and control -- Ch. 6. Designing...

Introduction / by Ralph Stacey -- Local and global processes in organizational life / by Ralph Stacey -- The local experience of a global diversity initiative in a multinational pharmaceutical company / by David Scanlon -- The emergence of global stability in local interaction in a consulting...

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...

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...

Tensions of organization design -- Aligning span of attention -- Unit structure -- Diagnostic control systems -- Interactive networks -- Shared responsibilities -- Adjusting the levers : three examples -- Designing organizations for performance.