Self-Organization and Management of Social Systems

I Principles of Self-Organization in Physical, Biological, and Social Systems. - Principles of Self-Organization In a Socio-Managerial Context. - Two Principles for Self-Organization. - Can Synergetics Be of Use to Management Theory? . - Self-Organisation: Some Theoretical Cross-Connections. - Towards a Theory of Social Systems: Self-Organization and Self-Maintenance, Self-Reference and Syn-Reference. - II Self-Organization and Management. - Management A Misunderstood Societal Function. - Systems Thinking in Management: The Development of Soft Systems Methodology and Its Implications for Social Science. - Evolutionary Management. - Systems Approach to Management: Hopes, Promises, Doubts A Lot of Questions and Some Afterthoughts. - Cybernetic Principles for the Design, Control, and Development of Social Systems and Some Afterthoughts. - Some Explanatory Boundaries of Organismic Analogies for the Understanding of Social Systems. - Insights, Promises, Doubts, and Questions Emerging from a Colloquium A Summary. - Index of Contributors.