Self-Organization and Management of Social Systems : Insights, Promises, Doubts, and Questions

Chapter 1 Principles of Self-Organization — In a Socio-Managerial Context

Chapter 2 Two Principles for Self-Organization

Chapter 3 Can Synergetics Be of Use to Management Theory?

Chapter 4 Self-Organisation: Some Theoretical Cross-Connections

Chapter 5 Towards a Theory of Social Systems: Self-Organization and Self-Maintenance, Self-Reference and Syn-Reference

Chapter 6 Management — A Misunderstood Societal Function

Chapter 7 Systems Thinking in Management: The Development of Soft Systems Methodology and Its Implications for Social Science

Chapter 8 Evolutionary Management

Chapter 9 Systems Approach to Management: Hopes, Promises, Doubts — A Lot of Questions and Some Afterthoughts

Chapter 10 Cybernetic Principles for the Design, Control, and Development of Social Systems and Some Afterthoughts

Chapter 11 Some Explanatory Boundaries of Organismic Analogies for the Understanding of Social Systems

Chapter 12 Insights, Promises, Doubts, and Questions Emerging from a Colloquium — A Summary