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- Authors:
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Jan Achterbergh
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Fac. Management Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Dirk Vriens
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Fac. Management Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
One of the first books to combine cybernetics and social systems theory for a new approach to organizations design and behavior
Provides an set of principles for designing socially responsible organizations
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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- Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens
Pages 1-29
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- Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens
Pages 31-70
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- Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens
Pages 71-111
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- Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens
Pages 113-163
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- Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens
Pages 165-175
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- Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens
Pages 177-221
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- Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens
Pages 223-276
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Pages 277-284
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Pages 285-309
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Pages 311-343
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- Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens
Pages 345-372
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- Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens
Pages 373-379
About this book
to do to ensure survival, and (2) principles for designing organizational structures in such a way that they can realize the required functions adequately. In the course of their elaboration, we will show that these principles are general – i. e. , that they hold for all organizations. 1. 5 Conceptual Background To describe organizations as social systems conducting experiments and to present principles for designing an infrastructure supporting the “social experiment,” we use concepts from (organizational) cybernetics, social systems theory, and Aristotle’s ethics. In this book, we hope to show that concepts from these traditions – as introduced by their relevant representatives – can be integrated into a framework supporting our perspective on organizations. To this purpose, we introduce, in each of the following chapters, relevant concepts from an author “belonging” to one of these three traditions and show how these concepts contribute to either describing organizations as social expe- ments (in Part I of the book), to formulating principles for the design of functions and organization structures supporting meaningful survival (Part II), or to formul- ing principles for the design of organization structures enabling the rich sense of meaningful survival (Part III). Of course, the relevance of cybernetics, social systems theory and Aristotle’s ethics can only be understood in full, after they have been treated in more detail – but based on what we said above, it may already be possible to see why these theories have been chosen as conceptual background.
