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Translated into English for the first time, Luhmann's modern
classic, Organization and Decision, explores how organizations
work; how they should be designed, steered, and controlled; and how
they order and structure society. Luhmann argues that organization
is order, yet indeterminate. In this book, he shows how this
paradox enables organizations to embed themselves within society
without losing autonomy. In developing his autopoietic perspective
on organizations, Luhmann applies his general theory of social
systems by conceptualizing organizations as self reproducing
systems of decision communications. His innovative and
interdisciplinary approach to the material (spanning organization
studies, management and sociology) is integral to any study of
organizations. This new translation, edited by one of the world's
leading experts on Luhmann, enables researchers and graduate
students across the English-speaking world to access Luhmann's
ideas more readily.
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Social Systems (Paperback)
Niklas Luhmann; Translated by John Bednarz, Dirk Baecker
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R1,029
R906
Discovery Miles 9 060
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A major challenge confronting contemporary theory is to overcome
its fixation on written narratives and the culture of print. In
this presentation of a general theory of systems, Germany's most
prominent and controversial social thinker sets out a contribution
to sociology that reworks our understanding of meaning and
communication. Luhmann concedes that there is no longer a binding
representation of society within society, but refuses to describe
this situation as a loss of legitimation or a crisis of
representation. Instead, he proposes that we search for new ways of
coping with the enforced selectivity that marks any
self-description under the conditions of functionally
differentiated modern society. For Luhmann, the end of
metanarratives does not mean the end of theory, but a challenge to
theory, an invitation to open itself to theoretical developments in
a number of disciplines that, for quite some time, have been
successfully working with cybernetic models that no longer require
the fiction of the external observer. Social Systems provides the
foundation for a theory of modern society that would be congruent
with this new understanding of the world. One of the most important
contributions to social theory of recent decades, it has
implications for many disciplines beyond sociology.
Dirk Baecker erläutert den Unterschied zwischen einem heroischen,
auf Eindeutigkeit zielenden und einem postheroischen, mit
verteilten Strukturen rechnenden Führungsverständnis. Erich
Gutenbergs Begründung der Betriebswirtschaftslehre wird als
Beispiel für eine Abstraktion diskutiert, die Management und
Führung in der Organisation beherrschen müssen, um sie fallweise
und zielführend aufheben zu können. Das Management dosiert die
Unterwerfung des Betriebs unter die Anforderungen der Wirtschaft,
die Führung die Unterwerfung des Betriebs unter die Anforderungen
der Gesellschaft. Beides sind Moderationstechniken, die mit den
robusten Eigenstrukturen der Organisation rechnen müssen. Als
Beispiel für solche Eigenstrukturen wird die fraktale Größe von
Gruppen diskutiert, die an verschiedenen Typen von Organisationen
nachgewiesen werden konnten. Der Beitrag plädiert für eine
interdisziplinäre Organisationsforschung, um einem nicht trivialen
Verständnis von Führung näherzukommen.
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Problems of Form (Paperback)
Dirk Baecker; Translated by Michael Irmscher, Leah Edwards
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R766
Discovery Miles 7 660
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Sociology has long sought to find out how acting in a situation and
observing that situation may differ and nevertheless belong to a
single kind of social operation. George Spencer-Brown's "Laws of
Form" (1969) provides one way to conceive of such an operation. The
present book is the first to make sociological use of his
mathematical calculus of form, which has been extensively applied
to cybernetics, systems theory, cognitive science, and mathematics.
Spencer-Brown's theory states that any action or communication is
always an operation that makes a distinction. Not only does this
operation take place, but it can be observed as indicating what it
is interested in, and as leaving unmarked what it is not.
Distinctions thereby entail a logic of inclusion and exclusion that
is subject to social debate and conflict. In social situations
there is no action that does not at the same time execute,
maintain, or cross a distinction.
Thus the observer is part of the situation he or she observes. The
essays in this volume use this idea to describe different social
"forms" as consisting of action observed by further action. A
"form" here is understood to be the two sides of a distinction and
its dividing line, taken together. All social action, therefore,
consists of three values: marked side, unmarked side, and an
operation separating the two. If one watches the third value, one
ends up observing the observer drawing the distinction--an observer
who, of course, may be oneself.
In this collection, more general essays study the consequences of
such an understanding of form for our conceptions of literature,
paradox, sign, play, and language. Other essays focus on the
observations necessary to construct such forms as money, the
university, the state, a career, or sickness. All the essays share
an interest in problems ensuing from the fact that though one can
observe the form of a distinction and become aware of its
arbitrary, contingent, and discriminatory nature, one nevertheless,
when trying to act or communicate, must choose a distinction. The
essays show how social situations deftly veil the arbitrariness of
the distinctions that constitute their forms.
Translated into English for the first time, Luhmann's modern
classic, Organization and Decision, explores how organizations
work; how they should be designed, steered, and controlled; and how
they order and structure society. Luhmann argues that organization
is order, yet indeterminate. In this book, he shows how this
paradox enables organizations to embed themselves within society
without losing autonomy. In developing his autopoietic perspective
on organizations, Luhmann applies his general theory of social
systems by conceptualizing organizations as self reproducing
systems of decision communications. His innovative and
interdisciplinary approach to the material (spanning organization
studies, management and sociology) is integral to any study of
organizations. This new translation, edited by one of the world's
leading experts on Luhmann, enables researchers and graduate
students across the English-speaking world to access Luhmann's
ideas more readily.
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Problems of Form (Hardcover)
Dirk Baecker; Translated by Michael Irmscher, Leah Edwards
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R3,716
Discovery Miles 37 160
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Sociology has long sought to find out how acting in a situation and
observing that situation may differ and nevertheless belong to a
single kind of social operation. George Spencer-Brown's "Laws of
Form" (1969) provides one way to conceive of such an operation. The
present book is the first to make sociological use of his
mathematical calculus of form, which has been extensively applied
to cybernetics, systems theory, cognitive science, and mathematics.
Spencer-Brown's theory states that any action or communication is
always an operation that makes a distinction. Not only does this
operation take place, but it can be observed as indicating what it
is interested in, and as leaving unmarked what it is not.
Distinctions thereby entail a logic of inclusion and exclusion that
is subject to social debate and conflict. In social situations
there is no action that does not at the same time execute,
maintain, or cross a distinction.
Thus the observer is part of the situation he or she observes. The
essays in this volume use this idea to describe different social
"forms" as consisting of action observed by further action. A
"form" here is understood to be the two sides of a distinction and
its dividing line, taken together. All social action, therefore,
consists of three values: marked side, unmarked side, and an
operation separating the two. If one watches the third value, one
ends up observing the observer drawing the distinction--an observer
who, of course, may be oneself.
In this collection, more general essays study the consequences of
such an understanding of form for our conceptions of literature,
paradox, sign, play, and language. Other essays focus on the
observations necessary to construct such forms as money, the
university, the state, a career, or sickness. All the essays share
an interest in problems ensuing from the fact that though one can
observe the form of a distinction and become aware of its
arbitrary, contingent, and discriminatory nature, one nevertheless,
when trying to act or communicate, must choose a distinction. The
essays show how social situations deftly veil the arbitrariness of
the distinctions that constitute their forms.
Die Autoren untersuchen, wie die Regeln des Managements in
Organisationen aussehen, deren Strategien, Routinen und Ressourcen
laufend auf dem Prufstand stehen, mit welcher Semantik sie
formuliert, wie sie durchgesetzt und abgesichert werden."
Die Autoren beschreiben die Strukturebenen der Organisation, denen
diese ihr Uberleben und daruber hinaus ihr erfolgreiches Operieren
verdankt. Mit Blick auf betriebswirtschaftliche Fragestellungen
betrachten sie die Organisation als historisches, soziales und
nichttriviales System, das weder in seiner Technologie oder in
seinem Personal noch in seinem Kapital oder in seinen
Geschaftsideen aufgeht, sondern diese Ebenen zu einer eigenwilligen
und eigendynamischen Struktur kombiniert."
This book brings together international experts on the application
of Niklas Luhmann's theory of society as autopoietic communication.
Luhmann's sociological systems theory is counter-intuitive and in
its detached coolness difficult for many to understand and accept.
Naturally they ask: is it really worth the trouble to learn? This
book demonstrates what this combination of systems theory,
Batesonian information theory, von Foerster's second-order
cybernetics, Maturana and Varela's autopoiesis and Husserl's
phenomenology can offer. The book is produced in cooperation with
the Sociocybernetic Group and Copenhagen Business School.
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