
Structures and Dynamics of Autopoietic Organizations
Theory and Simulation
Steffen Blaschke(Author)
Springer Gabler (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 26. June 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 216 pages
978-3-8349-0983-1 (ISBN)
Description
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance? -William Butler Yeats, Among School Children, 1927 The closing question from Yeats' poem Among School Children incites a paradoxical answer. It is possible to observe the particular positions and movements of an individual dancer and thereby identify the performance as a speci?c dance, while it is impossible to observe the performance of the dance devoid of the positions and movements of the dancer. Still, any other dancer may well perform the same dance, and just therefore it is possible to distinguish the particular positions and movements that constitute a speci?c dance from any individual performance. "Such remarks indicate that we are aware of two ontologically distinct entities within one perceptual phenomenon," Gill (1975) highlights. Knowing the dancer from the dance is neither purpose nor objective of the following contemplation. Nonetheless, the paradox that it is both possible and impossible to know the dancer from the dance is intriguing enough to introduces this work's genuine purpose and objective. 1. 1 Purpose and Objective The primary interest of this work rests with organizational knowledge and the associated concepts of organizational learning and memory, not the least because many argue that organizational knowledge is the main source of competitive advantage (e. g. , Grant, 1996; Kogut & Zander, 1992; Nahapiet & Ghoshal, 1998; Nonaka, 1991, 1994; Prahalad & Hamel, 1990).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wiesbaden
Germany
Publishing group
Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Gabler
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XII, 216 p.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
306 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8349-0983-1 (9783834909831)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-8349-9809-5
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Person
Dr. Steffen Blaschke promovierte bei Prof. Dr. Paul Alpar am Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik der Philipps-Universität Marburg. Derzeit ist er als Postdoktorand an der Forschungsstelle für Neue Kommunikationsmedien der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg tätig.
Content
Organizations as Rational, Natural, and Open Systems.- Organizations as Social Systems.- Social Science Simulation.- Simulation of Organizational Structures and Dynamics.- Conclusion.