Applied General Systems Research on Organizations
By: edited by Shingo Takahashi, Kyoichi Kijima, Ryo Sato
Contributors: Kijima, Kyoichi; Sato, Ryo
Publisher: Springer Japan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9784431679622; 9784431539490
Subjects: Physics; Engineering; Business planning
Description: Drastic changes of the societies in the new century require new paradigm in every area of social science. Organizations study is not exception. This book illustrates the cutting edge of organizations study beyond the traditional approaches in management science and general management theory. With an interdisciplinary approach emphasizing systemic properties of organizations such as interaction, hierarchy, network and emergence, it covers dynamic aspects of organizational learning and evolution as well as the decision making function and information processing process.
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Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Part I: Framework: A Formal Model of Organization; Coordination Principles with Satisfying Decision; title: Part II: Applications: Intra-organization: Organizational Effectiveness of Information System; An Evolutionary Agent-based Model for Double-loop Learning; Asset Allocation Problem Solving; title: Part III: Applications: Inter-organization: Coalition Formation by Organization; A Simulation of Industrial Structural Evolution; Emergence of Hierarchical Networks in Innovative Society; Learning Dynamics in Platform Externality.