Translated into English for the first time, Luhmann's classic text explores how organizations work; how they should be designed, steered, and controlled; and how they order and structure society. A must-read for scholars and graduate students in organizational theory and sociology.
Translated into English for the first time, Luhmann's classic text explores how organizations work; how they should be designed, steered, and controlled; and how they order and structure society. A must-read for scholars and graduate students in organizational theory and sociology.
Niklas Luhmann (1927¿1998) ranks as one of the most important German social theorists of the twentieth century. His works have been highly influential in sociology and other social sciences, including organization studies. The significance of organizations for Luhmann can be traced in his biography: at the beginning of his career, he spent almost eight years as a legal expert in public administration, through which he gained professional expertise in the function of organizations. This practice inspired much of his later theoretical work at Harvard's Graduate School for Public Administration, the University for Public Administration at Speyer, the Center for Social Research in Dortmund, where he was head of department, and at the Department for Sociology at Bielefeld University, where he largely refrained from administrative work. This book, which was one of Luhmann's last, can be regarded as his conclusion to over thiry years of research on organized social systems.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Organization theory: the classical constructions 2. Organization as an autopoietic system 3. Membership and motives 4. The paradox of decision-making 5. Time relations 6. Uncertainty absorption 7. Decision premises 8. Decision programs 9. Personnel 10. The organization of organization 11. Structural change: the poetry of reform and the reality of evolution 12. Technology 13. Organization and society 14. Self-description 15. Rationality Conclusion: theory and practice.
1. Organization theory: the classical constructions 2. Organization as an autopoietic system 3. Membership and motives 4. The paradox of decision-making 5. Time relations 6. Uncertainty absorption 7. Decision premises 8. Decision programs 9. Personnel 10. The organization of organization 11. Structural change: the poetry of reform and the reality of evolution 12. Technology 13. Organization and society 14. Self-description 15. Rationality Conclusion: theory and practice.
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