TY  - BOOK
AU  - Achterbergh,Jan
AU  - Vriens,Dirk Jaap
TI  - Organizations: social systems conducting experiments 
SN  - 9783642143151
U1  - 301 ACH 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Berlin :	
PB  - Springer,	
KW  - Organizational sociology
KW  - System theory
KW  - Business planning
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - What are organizations? What is their point? How should one design successful organizations? Although these questions have been treated by many authors in many different ways, this book offers a new perspective: In a nutshell, the book combines cybernetics, social systems theory and Aristotle's ethics to describe organizations as 'social systems conducting experiments with their survival' and to formulate principles for their design. In part I, the authors argue that 'experimenting' and 'social interaction' are key features of organizations. In order to survive, organizations continuously have
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