Strategy for Managing Complex Systems: A Contribution to Management Cybernetics for Evolutionary SystemsCampus Verlag, 12.05.2016 - 564 Seiten Malik demonstrates that management and management theory have strong foundations in systems science, and most specifically in a certain type of cybernetics of truly complex systems, of organismic, self-organizing, and evolving systems. We live in a world of highly complex systems. Many of these systems are extremely fragile, we do not have any substantial knowledge of their structure or behavior, and we are far from having them under control. It seems as though even minute occurrences can cause these systems to implode and/or gather alarming momentum, which our institutions are hardly prepared and equipped to deal with. This underlines the urgency of studying complex systems more thoroughly, rather than indulging in quick fixes and can-doism. Only then will we adequately value the most important function of our 21st-century society of complexity the management of its institutions and organizations and be able to implement the necessary improvements. Cybernetic management means self-organization: organizing a complex system in such a way that it will be able to self-organize. That means we will migrate to completely new and different solutions. This book provides the basics on how to create robust, functional, and sustainably viable systems. One of the reasons why it has become a classic on management cybernetics, now in its 11th edition, is that the strategies and heuristic principles of complexity management are still relevant now more than ever. " |
Inhalt
Preface to the 1st German Edition | 11 |
Preface to the 2nd German Edition | 15 |
Preface to the 3rd German Edition | 17 |
Preface to the 4th German Edition | 18 |
Preface to the 5th German Edition | 20 |
Preface to the 7th German Edition | 24 |
Preface to the 10th German Edition | 26 |
Preface to the 11th German Edition | 31 |
Construction and Evolution | 53 |
1 The Cybernetic Organization Structures of Management Systems | 106 |
2 Strategic Management and the Problemof Complexity | 197 |
3 Strategies for Managing Complexity | 355 |
When the End is a Beginning | 482 |
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| 549 | |
Introduction to the 5th Edition | 35 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
able achieve actions actually analysis applied approach areas assume basic Beer Brain behavior characteristics company’s complex systems components concept concrete constructivist context coordination corporate policy course create cybernetic decision detail determine discussed divisional divisions effects elements environment epistemology evolution evolutionary example fact Figure Fredmund Malik Friedrich von Hayek Gallen goals Heinz von Foerster homeostasis homeostat human individual influence interaction internal kind knowledge Malik management theory means mechanisms meta-systemic methods object system Oeller one’s operations optimal options organization organization’s overall paradigm perspective planning possible potential principle problem problem-solving process question rational recursion referred regard relevant result rules self-organizing sense servomechanism situation social systems socio-technical systems solution solving specific spontaneous orders stability Stafford Beer strategic management strategy subsystems system structures Systemmethodik systems methodology systems theory things thinking tion understanding usually variables variety Viable Systems Model
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Strategy for Managing Complex Systems: A Contribution to Management Cybernetics for Evolutionary Systems |
| Autor/in | Fredmund Malik |
| Übersetzt von | Jutta Scherer |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | Campus Verlag, 2016 |
| ISBN | 3593505398, 9783593505398 |
| Länge | 564 Seiten |
| Zitat exportieren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |