J. E. van Aken

On the control of complex industrial organizations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is concerned with control issues in complex industrial organizations. The word control is used here in a rather wide sense, including decision making, coordination and planning as well as activities such as the design and implementation of organizational structures or computerized information systems. There are various ways of defining complexity; here we use this term to indicate that the organizations in question consist of many sub organizations which are operationally interdependent but at the same time have a fair degree of independence of control. The control of the interactions between these suborganizations through coordination will be a key issue in this book. The discussion will be confined to industrial organizations; our results are only applicable to a limited extent to other types of organizations such as universities, hospitals or government offices. The main contribution we intend to make in this book is the development of a system oj concepts on controland coordination in industrial organizations which can be used in the design of organizational control structures such as planning systems, information systems or relations between positions or departments. Rather eclectic use has been made of various scientific disCiplines in the development of this conceptual system with some bias towards the use of system theory and cybernetics. The book is intended for professional workers in the field of 'organizational control technology', such as automation and .organization specialists in complex organizations and workers in the related disCiplines at University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-90-207-0791-5
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1978
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1978
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9789020707915
• ISBN-10: 9020707914
• Artikelnr.: 24519803

Inhaltsangabe

I Background.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Theoretical Background.- 3. The Field of this Study: Philips Industries.- II The Structure of Industrial Organizations.- Summary of Part II.- 4. Systems.- 5. Organizations.- 6. Industrial Organizations.- III The dynamics of complex industrial organizations.- Summary of Part III.- 7. Control in Industrial Networks.- 8. The Dynamics of a Network of Demand Servos.- 9. The Dynamics of a Network of Production Systems.- 10. The Dynamics of a Network of Social Systems.- IV Control systems for complex industrial organizations.- Summary of part IV.- 11. Control-System Structure.- 12. Coordination.- 13. The Aufbau.- 14. The Control-Ablauf.- 15. Control-System Design.- 16. An Example: The Prospect Blue-Print.- V Conclusion.- 17. Summing Up.- 18. Proposals for Further Research.- References.- Name index.