Organizations

1. Introducing Organizations as Social Systems Conducting Experiments
Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens

2. The Experimental Arche: Ashby’s Cybernetics
Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens

3. The Experimental Arche Continued: Von Foerster on Observing Systems
Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens

4. The Social “arche,” Organizations as Social Systems: Luhmann
Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens

5. Epilogue to Part I: The Two “Archai” Combined
Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens

6. Beer: Functional Design Principles for Viable Infrastructures
Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens

7. Specific Design Principles: de Sitter’s Organizational Structures
Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens

8. Epilogue to Part II: functional and specific design principles
Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens

9. Poor Survival: Disciplining Organizational Behavior
Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens

10. Towards Rich Survival: Aristotle
Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens

11. Organizational Structures Supporting Rich Survival
Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens

12. Epilogue
Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens

Keywords: Economics/Management Science, Organization/Planning, Social Sciences, general