April 2 - 6, 2007. Taking Organizations Seriously: The Social Systems Perspective
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Teaching personnel
Boris Holzer - Ph.D. Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet
Prof. André Kieserling - Univ. Bielefeld
Prof. Stefan Kühl - UniBW Hamburg
Taking Organizations Seriously: The Social Systems Perspective
The formal organization is a salient feature of modern society. Bureaucracies and firms may be the most common and obvious types of organization, but there are also churches, political parties and charities, for instance. The social systems perspective offers a comprehensive theoretical framework that allows us to analyse and compare those various types of organizing. It also provides an alternative to approaches that conceive organizations as primarily goal-seeking and hierarchical systems. In this seminar, we will discuss basic concepts, empirical case studies and critical questions regarding the application of systems theory to organizations. As in the years before, the seminar will be conducted in cooperation with Prof. André Kieserling (Univ. Bielefeld) and Prof. Stefan Kühl (UniBW Hamburg).
Texts
N. Luhmann, The Differentiation of Society, New York: Columbia University Press 1982;
Social Systems (transl. by John Bednarz Jr. with Dirk Baecker), Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 1995.
The formal organization is a salient feature of modern society. Bureaucracies and firms may be the most common and obvious types of organization, but there are also churches, political parties and charities, for instance. The social systems perspective offers a comprehensive theoretical framework that allows us to analyse and compare those various types of organizing. It also provides an alternative to approaches that conceive organizations as primarily goal-seeking and hierarchical systems. In this seminar, we will discuss basic concepts, empirical case studies and critical questions regarding the application of systems theory to organizations. As in the years before, the seminar will be conducted in cooperation with Prof. André Kieserling (Univ. Bielefeld) and Prof. Stefan Kühl (UniBW Hamburg).
Texts
N. Luhmann, The Differentiation of Society, New York: Columbia University Press 1982;
Social Systems (transl. by John Bednarz Jr. with Dirk Baecker), Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 1995.
Contact
Chiara Bianchini - LMU Seminars Coordinator
Chiara Bianchini - LMU Seminars Coordinator
Tel. + 39 041 2719511
Fax. + 39 041 2719510
