The Viability of Organizations Vol. 1 : Decoding the "DNA" of Organizations /

Today's complexity, speed, and need for adaptation are putting organizations under stress. Understanding how organizations function and truly come alive has become a critical competency. And yet, organizations still seem to lack a solid understanding of what constitutes meaningful, viable, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lassl, Wolfgang (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:	1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:	Organization. Planning. Economic sociology. School management and organization. School administration. Leadership. Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology. Administration, Organization and Leadership. Business Strategy/Leadership. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Life, viability, and the art of keeping one's balance
VSM in fifteen minutes - How does a soccer club function?
The product - core and foundation of the organization
"Joining and coordinating forces" - The operational metasystem (part 1)
"Controlling and Optimizing" - The operational metasystem (part 2)
"Looking outside" - The strategic metasystem (part 1)
"Creating orientation and direction" - The strategic metasystem (part 2)
Decisiveness and closure "- The normative metasystem (part 1)
"Facing responsibility" - The normative metasystem (part 2)
The Recursivity of Organization
"If we knew (and let know), what we know ..." - Organizations as information, transduction, and power systems
The VSM - does it apply to real-life organizations?
"The bigger picture" - some of the VSM's key messages
Not an epilog, but the point to set the sails.