ISBN:
9781108458962
,
9781108472074
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 410 Seiten
Uniform Title:
Organisation und Entscheidung
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Luhmann, Niklas, - 1927-1998 Organization and decision
DDC:
302.3/5
Keywords:
Organizational behavior
;
Organizational change
;
Organizational effectiveness
;
Organizational behavior
;
Organizational change
;
Organizational effectiveness
;
Systemtheorie
;
Organisationssoziologie
Abstract:
"Organizations deserve more attention than they have hitherto found-above all, a different sort of attention. This may seem a bold assertion given the many ways in which organizations are discussed in everyday communication and in the relevant scientific disciplines. But this is the very reason to concentrate our attention more strongly not on organizations as countable entities but on organization as a process. This is relevant from a theoretical perspective, given that inquiry into the essence of organization seems to have become unproductive (which is typical of questions of essence, indeed of what- questions per se). But a different understanding of organization could prove important for the purposes of practical policy. Precisely because organizations (again in the plural) have become crucial, indispensable to modern life, it could be important to have a better grasp of their "intrinsic logic." Especially if heteronomy-be it subjection to owners or other "masters," to liberal or socialist ideologies, or to representatives of interests that are themselves organized-is increasingly called into question, it could be important to give organizations a conception of themselves that enables them to answer for themselves"--
Note:
Translated by Rhodes Barrett
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1017/9781108560672
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