A growing body of literature in organization studies draws on the assumption that communication constitutes organization, often abbreviated to CCO. In this paper, we introduce Luhmann’s theory of social systems as one explicit strain of CCO thinking. We particularly argue that Luhmann’s...

The perfect competition paradigm of conventional microeconomics has traditionally been used as a reference to determine the efficiency of markets. However, there are very few industries that can be described with this model. This paper argues that the perfect competition model is based on very...

The Open Systems approach has not been developed and applied as much as it could in project management. This study will use the comparison between two embedded, multiple cases, each using either a Closed or an Open Systems approach, in order to discover whether: a) an Open Systems approach is...

For some time now there has been growing concern in research circles that conventional Project Management methodologies can not be applied in innovation projects successfully. Conventional Project Management methodologies, which were created by the professional establishments in construction and...

Systems thinking following Capra's definition (Capra, 1996), is a framework that is based on the belief that the parts of a system will act differently when the systems relationships are removed and it is viewed in isolation. The only way to fully understand why a problem or element occurs and...

We present some new ways of looking at economic systems. The aspect of human behavior which we emphasize is that individuals' judgments entail errors (they sometimes reject good projects and accept bad projects). The aspect of an economic system on which we focus is its architecture; that is, how...

Die hier vorgestellten Überlegungen nehmen direkt Bezug auf die im Zuge der projektinternen Synopse identifizierten Unzulänglichkeiten aktuell diskutierter Wohlfahrts- und grüner Wachstumskonzepte in ihrem Verhältnis zu dem bislang in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland etablierten...