Intelligent Organizations

This book offers an innovative approach for overcoming the crisis of management in the face of complexity. The text fully explores this powerful tool, which is grounded in organizational cybernetics and systems dynamics. The book will serve as a sourcebook for improvement in many types of organizations, private or public, non-profit, large or small. The approach teaches managers and advanced students of management cope with organizational complexity in an effective way.

Offers an innovative approach to problems of management in the face of complexity Introduces a powerful tool, grounded in organizational cybernetics and systems dynamics Differs from many conventional organizational references because of its systems approach Can benefit any kind of organization, private or public, non-profit, large or small The new edition is updated and even more reader-friendly Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Markus Schwaninger ist ein österreichischer Ökonom. Er ist emeritierter Titularprofessor für Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Managementlehre an der Universität St. Gallen. Schwaninger promovierte 1979 an der Universität Innsbruck. Anschließend arbeitete er am Managementzentrum St. Gallen und am Institut für Betriebswirtschaft der Universität St. Gallen. Sein hauptsächliches Forschungsinteresse liegt in den Bereichen Organisationsintelligenz, Managementkybernetik und System Dynamics.

Klappentext

The systems approach in which this work is grounded enables the development of the new kind of intelligent organizations so urgently needed. Powerful models, based on organizational cybernetics and system dynamics, are presented in a way that lets the reader immediately apply them in practice. This book will be a rich source for improvement in any kind of organization, whether private or public, non-profit, large or small.

The new edition is updated and even more reader-friendly.

Inhalt
Organizational Intelligence in Systemic Terms.- Complexity and Understanding.- Management A Distributed Function.- Intelligent Organization A Systemic Framework.- Activities: What the Organization Does.- Structure Preconditions for Effective Action.- Behaviour The Control of Cognition and Emotion.- Ethos and Identity: Basic Parameters of Organizations.- Time and Organizational Dynamics.- The Framework Revisited.- Outlook: The Way Ahead.