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Organization and decision / Niklas Luhmann, Rhodes Barrett

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018

1 Online-Ressource (x, 410 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch (Sprache des Originals: Deutsch)

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Oct 2018). - Translation from the German language edition: Organisation und Entscheidung by Niklas Luhmann , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Copyright © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2011

Erscheint auch als: Organization and decision / Luhmann, Niklas (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-108-56067-2 ( : ebook)

978-1-108-47207-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-108-45896-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

OCoLC: 1079406677     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781108560672

MS 5650  | QP 340      Ähnliche Literatur

HM786

302.3/5

Basisklassifikation: 70.03 (Methoden, Techniken und Organisation der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung)

*Organisation ; Soziales System ; Autopoiese ; Entscheidung ; Kommunikation      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Organizational behavior ; Organizational effectiveness ; Organizational change ; Organizational sociology

Organizational sociology. ; Organizational behavior. ; Organizational change. ; Organizational effectiveness. ; Organizational sociology ; Organizational behavior ; Organizational change ; Organizational effectiveness

Translated into English for the first time, Luhmann's modern classic, Organization and Decision, explores how organizations work; how they should be designed, steered, and controlled; and how they order and structure society. Luhmann argues that organization is order, yet indeterminate. In this book, he shows how this paradox enables organizations to embed themselves within society without losing autonomy. In developing his autopoietic perspective on organizations, Luhmann applies his general theory of social systems by conceptualizing organizations as self­reproducing systems of decision communications. His innovative and interdisciplinary approach to the material (spanning organization studies, management and sociology) is integral to any study of organizations. This new translation, edited by one of the world's leading experts on Luhmann, enables researchers and graduate students across the English-speaking world to access Luhmann's ideas more readily

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Organization theory: the classical constructions -- Organization as an autopoietic system -- Membership and motives -- The paradox of decision-making -- Time relations -- Uncertainty absorption -- Decision premises -- Decision programs -- Personnel -- The organization of organization -- Structural change: the poetry of reform and the reality of evolution -- Technology -- Organization and society -- Self-description -- Rationality -- Conclusion: theory and practice