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ISBN10: 3642143156, ISBN13: 9783642143151, [publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin] Softcover Paperback. to do to ensure survival, and (2) principles for designing organizational structures in such a way that they can realize the required functions adequately. In the course of their elaboration, we will show that these principles are general i.e., that they hold for all organizations. 1.5 Conceptual Background To describe organizations as social systems conducting experiments and to present principles for designing an infrastructure supporting the social experiment, we use concepts from (organizational) cybernetics, social systems theory, and Aristotles ethics. In this book, we hope to show that concepts from these traditions as introduced by their relevant representatives can be integrated into a framework supporting our perspective on organizations. To this purpose, we introduce, in each of the following chapters, relevant concepts from an author belonging to one of these three traditions and show how these concepts contribute to describing organizations as social experiments (in Part I of the book), to formulating principles for the design of functions and organization structures supporting meaningful survival (Part II), and to formulating principles for the design of organization structures enabling the rich sense of meaningful survival (Part III). Of course, the relevance of cybernetics, social systems theory and Aristotles eth ...
Berlin Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K 2010 2nd ed. 2010. Paperback New. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. XII, 391 p. 73 illus. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
ISBN10: 3642143156, ISBN13: 9783642143151, [publisher: Springer, Berlin, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - to do to ensure survival, and (2) principles for designing organizational structures in such a way that they can realize the required functions adequately. In the course of their elaboration, we will show that these principles are general - i.e., that they hold for all organizations. 1.5 Conceptual Background To describe organizations as social systems conducting experiments and to present principles for designing an infrastructure supporting the 'social experiment,' we use concepts from (organizational) cybernetics, social systems theory, and Aristotle's ethics. In this book, we hope to show that concepts from these traditions - as introduced by their relevant representatives - can be integrated into a framework supporting our perspective on organizations. To this purpose, we introduce, in each of the following chapters, relevant concepts from an author 'belonging' to one of these three traditions and show how these concepts contribute to describing organizations as social experiments (in Part I of the book), to formulating principles for the design of functions and organization structures supporting meaningful survival (Part II), and to formulating principles for the design of organization structures enabling the rich sense of meaningful survival (Part III). Of course, t ...
Berlin Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K 2010 2nd ed. 2010. Paperback New. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. XII, 391 p. 73 illus. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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ISBN10: 3642143156, ISBN13: 9783642143151, [publisher: Springer, Berlin, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - to do to ensure survival, and (2) principles for designing organizational structures in such a way that they can realize the required functions adequately. In the course of their elaboration, we will show that these principles are general - i.e., that they hold for all organizations. 1.5 Conceptual Background To describe organizations as social systems conducting experiments and to present principles for designing an infrastructure supporting the 'social experiment,' we use concepts from (organizational) cybernetics, social systems theory, and Aristotle's ethics. In this book, we hope to show that concepts from these traditions - as introduced by their relevant representatives - can be integrated into a framework supporting our perspective on organizations. To this purpose, we introduce, in each of the following chapters, relevant concepts from an author 'belonging' to one of these three traditions and show how these concepts contribute to describing organizations as social experiments (in Part I of the book), to formulating principles for the design of functions and organization structures supporting meaningful survival (Part II), and to formulating principles for the design of organization structures enabling the rich sense of meaningful survival (Part III). Of course, t ...
ISBN10: 3642143156, ISBN13: 9783642143151, [publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG] Softcover What are organizations? What is their point? How should one design successful organizations? This revised book offers a new perspective to these questions. It is one of the first books to combine cybernetics and social systems theory. Num Pages: 391 pages, 73 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KJU; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 574. . 2010. 2nd ed. 2010. Paperback. . . . . [Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 2010]
ISBN10: 3642143156, ISBN13: 9783642143151, [publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG] Softcover What are organizations? What is their point? How should one design successful organizations? This revised book offers a new perspective to these questions. It is one of the first books to combine cybernetics and social systems theory. Num Pages: 391 pages, 73 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KJU; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 574. . 2010. 2nd ed. 2010. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2010]
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