ISBN:
9781351913430
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (205 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Seidl, David Organisational Identity and Self-Transformation : An Autopoietic Perspective
DDC:
658.406
Keywords:
a Group identity
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Electronic books
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Organizational sociology
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Social structure
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Autopoiesis
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Identity (Psychology)
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Autopoiesis, Luhmann, Spencer Brown -- Introduction -- 1. New Systems Theory: The Concept of Self-Referential Autopoietic Systems -- 2. Luhmann's Theory of Autopoietic Social Systems -- 3. A Theory of Observation: Spencer Brown's Laws of Form -- 4. The Laws of Form and the Theory of Social Systems -- Chapter 2: Organisation as Autopoietic System -- Introduction -- 1. Organisation and Decision -- 2. Organisation and Society -- 3. Organisation and Interaction
Abstract:
4. Organisational Culture -- 5. Summary -- Chapter 3: Organisational Identity -- Introduction -- 1. Concepts of Organisational Identity in the Literature -- 2. Organisational Identity in the Context of Autopoiesis -- 3. Forms of Self-Description -- 4. Multiple Self-Descriptions -- 5. Summary -- Chapter 4: The Logic of Self-Transformation -- Introduction -- 1. Self-Transformation and the Concept of Change -- 2. The Decision to Change the Self-Description -- 3. Paradox and the Risk of Paralysis -- 4. Loose Coupling, Episode and Interactionally Framed Decision Processes -- 5. Summary
Abstract:
Chapter 5: An Evolutionary Model of Self-Transformation -- Introduction -- 1. Luhmann's General Theory of Evolution -- 2. Variation and the Interactionally Framed Decision Process -- 3. Selection and the Differentiation between Organisation and Interactionally Framed Decision Process -- 4. Re-Stabilisation -- 5. Summary -- Conclusion: The Distinctions of the Study -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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