Soziale Systeme war fur Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998) das erste Buch, das nicht mehr in die »Nullserie der Theorieproduktion« gehorte, sondern den grosen Entwurf fur die dann folgende Reihe von Banden wie Die Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft, Die Politik der Gesellschaft, Die Kunst der Gesellschaft, Die Wissenschaft der Gesellschaft, Die Religion der Gesellschaft bis hin zu Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft vorlegte. Hier finden wir die konzentrierteste Zusammenfassung von Luhmanns Systemtheorie. Der Band ist ein Kompendium begriff licher Grundentscheidungen und Grunddefinitionen mit dem Ziel einer universal anwendbaren Theorie alles Sozialen – und nicht nur eines Ausschnittes.

Niklas Luhmann: Soziale Systeme. Grundriß einer allgemeinen Theorie, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1984, 674 S

Goodlad (John I.) - A Place called school : prospects for the future

Opladen; Farmington Hills, MI : Verlag Barbara Budrich 2010, 369 S.
Padagogische Teildisziplin: Allgemeine Erziehungswissenschaft; Empirische Bildungsforschung;

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Qualitative analysis and documentary method in international educational research

Organizations have to cope with the complexity of their environment in order to survive. A considerable body of research has shown that organizations may respond to environmental complexity by creating internal complexity – for example, by expanding internal structures and processes. However, researchers know less about how organizations create collaborative complexity collectively – for example, by establishing alliances or developing common standards. This paper uses social systems theory to explore how organizations collaborate in response to complexity and to analyse the conditions under which they create either internal or collaborative complexity (or both) to address environmental complexity. It also examines how these types of complexity feed back into environmental complexity. To illustrate our conceptual model, we use corporate social responsibility (CSR).

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Reducing complexity by creating complexity: A systems theory perspective on how organisations respond to their environments

Although the lion’s share of scholarship in management and organization studies conceives of organizations as entities within which communication occurs, “Communication Constitutes Organization” (C...

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Giancarlo Corsi

Papers

GLU : Glossar zu Niklas Luhmanns Theorie sozialer Systeme

Teoria della società

GLU: Glosario sobre la teoría social de Niklas Luhmann

Resurrecting organization without renouncing society: A response to Ahrne, Brunsson and Seidl

Sociologia del rischio