Innovation, creativity, and design are among the most frequently used words in business and society today. In most situations, innovation studies focus on markets and technical road-mapping for future innovations. Less attention is paid to non-economic and non-technical innovations. Contrary to...

Many social orders, including markets and science, can be understood as instances of adaptive systems, i.e., networks of active components whose interactions implement a persistent but mutable structure which is adaptable to its environment. This general model of social structure, being neither...

The aim of this paper is to pave the way towards the inclusion of mainstream sociological approaches (based on Luhmann's approach) for the studies of firms-organizations. In social sciences we can observe that the theoretic consequences of a paradigm shift is significantly represented by the...

SWD-Schlagwörter: Organisationsentwicklung, Komplexität, Personalwesen, Wissenschaftstheorie. - Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch): Human Resources, Complexity, Organisational Development, Scientific Theory

This paper aims to introduce the concept and characteristics of natech disaster (natural hazards triggered technological disaster) and to explore the policy issues in complex disaster management in Korea. This research examines the issues of natech complex disaster through analysis of Sewol...

This paper provides an introduction to a unifying heterodox approach to the micro-macro link in economics. We emphasize the analytical problems that may arise from popular misunderstandings about the relationship of individual and aggregate level and thereby illustrate why a thorough...

Controller scheinen sich untereinander oft mit der Frage zu beschäftigen, welche Rolle sie in Unternehmen spielen und welche Aufgaben von ihnen zu erledigen sind. Der vorliegende Beitrag beobachtet diese Diskussion zum einen vom Standpunkt eines Außenstehenden aus und zum anderen aus einer...

Agafonow's article locates the role of social enterprises in devolving value through output maximizing behavior. This short paper embeds Agafonow's argument in the societal and institutional context by building upon Luhmann's social systems theory. According to Luhmann, the functional system of...