02009nam#a2200289uc#4500 0082554 20260731222926.0 978-1-108-45896-2 Paperback 1-108-45896-3 Ml Luhmann, Niklas Verfasser aut Organisation und Entscheidung Organization and decision Cambridge University Press 2018 x, 410 Seiten Includes bibliographical references and index "Organizations deserve more attention than they have hitherto found-above all, a different sort of attention. This may seem a bold assertion given the many ways in which organizations are discussed in everyday communication and in the relevant scientific disciplines. But this is the very reason to concentrate our attention more strongly not on organizations as countable entities but on organization as a process. This is relevant from a theoretical perspective, given that inquiry into the essence of organization seems to have become unproductive (which is typical of questions of essence, indeed of what- questions per se). But a different understanding of organization could prove important for the purposes of practical policy. Precisely because organizations (again in the plural) have become crucial, indispensable to modern life, it could be important to have a better grasp of their "intrinsic logic." Especially if heteronomy-be it subjection to owners or other "masters," to liberal or socialist ideologies, or to representatives of interests that are themselves organized-is increasingly called into question, it could be important to give organizations a conception of themselves that enables them to answer for themselves"-- Systemtheorie Organisationssoziologie Organisationen Kommunikation Entscheidung Autopoiese Barrett, Rhodes Barret, Rhodes ICL 6443 67049 67049 0 0 0 2 AWMBIB AWMBIB 2025-05-02 35.53 0 Ml 12.2 Luh engl 01241112 2026-07-31 22:46:19 2026-07-31 BUCH