Organizations Social Systems Conducting Experiments /

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 Aristotle's...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Achterbergh, Jan (Author), Vriens, Dirk (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Subjects:
Industrial organization.
Business.
Management science.
Social sciences.
Organization.
Business and Management.
Society.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing Organizations as Social Systems Conducting Experiments
  • The Experimental Arche: Ashby's Cybernetics
  • The Experimental Arche Continued: Von Foerster on Observing Systems
  • The Second "arche", Organizations as Social Systems: Luhmann
  • Epilogue to Part I: The Two "Archai" Combined
  • Beer: Functional Design Principles for Viable Infrastructures
  • Specific Design Principles: de Sitter's Organizational Structures
  • Epilogue to Part II: functional and specific design principles
  • Poor Survival: Disciplining Organizational Behavior
  • Towards Rich Survival: Aristotle
  • Organizational Structures Supporting Rich Survival
  • Epilogue.

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