Niklas Luhmann

Organization and Decision (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 self-reproducing 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108652322
• Artikelnr.: 57077436

Autorenporträt

Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) ranks as one of the most important German social theorists of the twentieth century. His works have been highly influential in sociology and other social sciences, including organization studies. The significance of organizations for Luhmann can be traced in his biography: at the beginning of his career, he spent almost eight years as a legal expert in public administration, through which he gained professional expertise in the function of organizations. This practice inspired much of his later theoretical work at Harvard's Graduate School for Public Administration, the University for Public Administration at Speyer, the Center for Social Research in Dortmund, where he was head of department, and at the Department for Sociology at Bielefeld University, where he largely refrained from administrative work. This book, which was one of Luhmann's last, can be regarded as his conclusion to over thiry years of research on organized social systems.

Inhaltsangabe

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.