Organization and Decision

ISBN-13: 9781108458962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 418 str.

Niklas Luhmann; Dirk Baecker; Rhodes Barrett

Opis

Luhmann's classic text on how organizations work; how they should be designed, steered, and controlled; and how they structure society.

Recenzje

'A long-awaited translation of Niklas Luhmann's landmark contribution to organization studies. We discover an author extremely well versed in the management literature, who is in constant dialogue with key authors such as Karl E. Weick, Herbert A. Simon and Michel Crozier. A must read for anyone interested in the communicative constitutive approaches to organization and organizing.' François Cooren, Université de Montréal, Canada

Spis treści

1. Organization theory: the classical constructions; 2. Organization as an autopoietic system; 3. Membership and motives; 4. The paradox of decision-making; 5. Time relations ; 6. Uncertainty absorption; 7. Decision premises; 8. Decision programs; 9. Personnel; 10. The organization of organization; 11. Structural change: the poetry of reform and the reality of evolution; 12. Technology; 13. Organization and society; 14. Self-description; 15. Rationality; Conclusion: theory and practice.