Stefan Kühl

Organizations (eBook, ePUB)

A Systems Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How - as members, customers, voters or patients - do we deal with organizations: public administrations; universities and schools; hospitals; prisons; political parties; or the military? The systems theory developed by sociologist Niklas Luhmann is among the twentieth century's seminal scientific achievements, commensurate perhaps only with Einstein's theory of relativity, Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, or Freud's analysis of the unconscious. While systems theory is not easily accessible, the subject of organizations offers an opportunity to gain insight into the fecundity of this approach. This book is the first in which Luhmann's organizational theory and an introduction to systems theory have been presented in such brief and succinct form and will be readily grasped by a new audience. The author of Organizations argues that, in future, the elaborate conception that systems theory has put forward will be the standard that other theoretical approaches to explaining organizations will have to meet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351913300
• Artikelnr.: 49377805

Autorenporträt

Stefan Kÿhl studied sociology, historical science and economics at the University of Bielefeld, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Université Paris-X-Nanterre, and the University of Oxford. He is a professor of organizational sociology at the University of Bielefeld and one of the leading system theorists working in the field of organizational science. He works as an organizational consultant for Metaplan, a consulting firm based in Princeton in the USA, Paris, Hamburg and Zÿrich.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Author
1. Organizations: What Are They
Actually?
2. Membership
Goals
and Hierarchies
3. Machines
Games
and Façades: The Three Aspects of an Organization
4. Beyond the Iceberg Metaphor: The Possibilities and Limitations of Communicating about Organizations
Annex: A Somewhat Longer Justification for a Brief Introduction into the System Approach
References
Index