Applied General Systems Research on Organizations

✍ Scribed by Shingo Takahashi Ph.D., Kyoichi Kijima Ph.D., Ryo Sato Ph.D. (auth.), Shingo Takahashi Ph.D., Kyoichi Kijima Ph.D., Ryo Sato Ph.D. (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Tokyo
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 182
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages II-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Formal Model of Organization....Pages 3-35
Coordination Principles of Satisficing Decisions....Pages 37-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Organizational Effectiveness of Information Systems....Pages 63-79
Evolutionary Agent-Based Model for Double-Loop Learning....Pages 81-96
Asset Allocation Problem Solving....Pages 97-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Coalition Formation by Organizations....Pages 115-130
A Simulation of Industrial Structural Evolution....Pages 131-147
Why Stratification of Networks Emerges in Innovative Society....Pages 149-165
Learning Dynamics in Platform Externality....Pages 167-176
Back Matter....Pages 177-181

✦ Subjects

Operation Research/Decision Theory;Complexity;Organization/Planning