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Self-Organization and Management of Social Systems

Insights, Promises, Doubts, and Questions

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  • © 1984

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Editors:
  1. Hans Ulrich

    1. Hochschule für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Institut für Betriebswirtschaft, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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  2. Gilbert J. B. Probst

    1. Hochschule für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Institut für Betriebswirtschaft, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Springer Series in Synergetics (SSSYN, volume 26)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  3. Self-Organization and Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Management — A Misunderstood Societal Function

      • H. Ulrich
      Pages 80-93

    3. Systems Thinking in Management: The Development of Soft Systems Methodology and Its Implications for Social Science

      • P. B. Checkland
      Pages 94-104

    4. Evolutionary Management

      • F. Malik, G. Probst
      Pages 105-120

    5. Systems Approach to Management: Hopes, Promises, Doubts — A Lot of Questions and Some Afterthoughts

      • F. Malik
      Pages 121-126

    6. Cybernetic Principles for the Design, Control, and Development of Social Systems and Some Afterthoughts

      • G. Probst
      Pages 127-131

    7. Some Explanatory Boundaries of Organismic Analogies for the Understanding of Social Systems

      • P. Dachler
      Pages 132-147

    8. Insights, Promises, Doubts, and Questions Emerging from a Colloquium — A Summary

      • G. Probst, H. Ulrich
      Pages 148-152

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 153-158
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Hochschule für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Institut für Betriebswirtschaft, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Hans Ulrich, Gilbert J. B. Probst

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Self-Organization and Management of Social Systems

  • Book Subtitle: Insights, Promises, Doubts, and Questions

  • Editors: Hans Ulrich, Gilbert J. B. Probst

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Synergetics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69762-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-69764-7Published: 19 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-69762-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0172-7389

  • Series E-ISSN: 2198-333X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 158

  • Topics: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

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