Self-Organization and Management of Social Systems

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• I Principles of Self-Organization in Physical, Biological, and Social Systems.
• Principles of Self-Organization — In a Socio-Managerial Context.
• Two Principles for Self-Organization.
• Can Synergetics Be of Use to Management Theory?.
• Self-Organisation: Some Theoretical Cross-Connections.
• Towards a Theory of Social Systems: Self-Organization and Self-Maintenance, Self-Reference and Syn-Reference.
• II Self-Organization and Management.
• Management — A Misunderstood Societal Function.
• Systems Thinking in Management: The Development of Soft Systems Methodology and Its Implications for Social Science.
• Evolutionary Management.
• Systems Approach to Management: Hopes, Promises, Doubts — A Lot of Questions and Some Afterthoughts.
• Cybernetic Principles for the Design, Control, and Development of Social Systems and Some Afterthoughts.
• Some Explanatory Boundaries of Organismic Analogies for the Understanding of Social Systems.
• Insights, Promises, Doubts, and Questions Emerging from a Colloquium — A Summary.
• Index of Contributors.