Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt, dass die Festlegung der Fertigungstiefe in der Gegenstromplanung von Strategien kein stringentes Instrument der Unternehmensführung ist. Die Top-Down und Bottom-Up Analyse über die hierarchischen Ebenen der Unternehmens-, Wettbewerbs- und Funktionalstrategie...

The paper shows how traditional organizational structures within the production sector, such as quality circles, learning groups ("Lernstatt") and project teams reflect the constructivist and postmodern concepts of strategic management with their wide ignorance of purely plan deterministic...

In the German automobile industry the vertical integration, as an indicator of value added, is on average low. Beyond the argument of relative high labour costs for manufacturing, several specific reasons for the level of vertical integration, linked to the flexibility of business administration...

The paper handles central topics of social system theory, such as contingency,emergence, communication, reality construction based on cognitive epistemology, and differential logic. The conducted discussion is embedded in the construction of a hermeneutic approach to social system theory....

The overall ‘social system-perspective on firms and organizations points out the role of ‘communication’ as the decisive construction tool for a social system. However, this point of view in the tradition of Niklas Luhmann, neglects the concrete transfer of systemic principles into the...