Ebook: Self-Organization and Management of Social Systems: Insights, Promises, Doubts, and Questions

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Principles of Self-Organization — In a Socio-Managerial Context....Pages 2-24
Two Principles for Self-Organization....Pages 25-32
Can Synergetics Be of Use to Management Theory?....Pages 33-41
Self-Organisation: Some Theoretical Cross-Connections....Pages 42-59
Towards a Theory of Social Systems: Self-Organization and Self-Maintenance, Self-Reference and Syn-Reference....Pages 60-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Management — A Misunderstood Societal Function....Pages 80-93
Systems Thinking in Management: The Development of Soft Systems Methodology and Its Implications for Social Science....Pages 94-104
Evolutionary Management....Pages 105-120
Systems Approach to Management: Hopes, Promises, Doubts — A Lot of Questions and Some Afterthoughts....Pages 121-126
Cybernetic Principles for the Design, Control, and Development of Social Systems and Some Afterthoughts....Pages 127-131
Some Explanatory Boundaries of Organismic Analogies for the Understanding of Social Systems....Pages 132-147
Insights, Promises, Doubts, and Questions Emerging from a Colloquium — A Summary....Pages 148-152
Back Matter....Pages 153-158

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Principles of Self-Organization — In a Socio-Managerial Context....Pages 2-24
Two Principles for Self-Organization....Pages 25-32
Can Synergetics Be of Use to Management Theory?....Pages 33-41
Self-Organisation: Some Theoretical Cross-Connections....Pages 42-59
Towards a Theory of Social Systems: Self-Organization and Self-Maintenance, Self-Reference and Syn-Reference....Pages 60-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Management — A Misunderstood Societal Function....Pages 80-93
Systems Thinking in Management: The Development of Soft Systems Methodology and Its Implications for Social Science....Pages 94-104
Evolutionary Management....Pages 105-120
Systems Approach to Management: Hopes, Promises, Doubts — A Lot of Questions and Some Afterthoughts....Pages 121-126
Cybernetic Principles for the Design, Control, and Development of Social Systems and Some Afterthoughts....Pages 127-131
Some Explanatory Boundaries of Organismic Analogies for the Understanding of Social Systems....Pages 132-147
Insights, Promises, Doubts, and Questions Emerging from a Colloquium — A Summary....Pages 148-152
Back Matter....Pages 153-158
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