The paper revisits the fundamental question of the nature of the firm by contrasting two philosophic worldviews suggested by process philosophy and the Luhmannian systems theory. Whereas the former worldview takes reality to be internally related, the latter ones underscores the tendency of...

Führung ist weder richtig noch falsch, sie ist wirksam oder unwirksam – so einer der Grundgedanken Systemischer Führung. Die Art der Führung stellt im Allgemeinen einen wichtigen Faktor für die Gesundheit der Geführten dar. Die Persönlichkeit der Geführten wiederum determiniert sowohl...

In a recent contribution to this journal, Deng et al. (2021) draw on an extensive range of theoretical and empirical literature to make the case for the tendency of social capital resources of agricultural cooperatives in the Western world to decline over time. The present paper revisits this...

This paper argues that non-profit and for-profit organizations are coequal variants of the general concept of multifunctional organization. A more multifunctional view of an NPO’s or for-profit organization’s environment that does not systematically neglect religious, educational,...

Information and communication technologies (ICT), which are transforming most areas, develop non-linearly. Failure to take into account the nonlinear principles of complex dynamic systems hinders the development of balanced innovation strategies. Companies and governments lose the ability to...

Blockchain networks and similar cryptoeconomic networks are systems, specifically complex systems. They are adaptive networks with multiscale spatio-temporal dynamics. Individual actions may be incentivized towards a collective goal with "purpose-driven" tokens. Blockchain networks, for example,...

Betriebe sind das Erfahrungsobjekt der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung. So eindeutig und geradezu trivial diese Aussage klingt, so diffus erscheinen die Antworten auf die Frage, was denn nun eigentlich einen Betrieb von einem "Nicht-Betrieb" unterscheidet, wobei Letzterer dann vom...

"Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking explores a radical new conception of business and management. It is grounded on the reconnection of humans with nature as the new competitive advantage for living organizations and entrepreneurs that aspire to regenerate the economy and drive a positive...

Over the past decades, the modernization of agriculture in the Western world has contributed not only to a rapid increase in food production but also to environmental and societal concerns over issues such as greenhouse gas emissions, soil quality and biodiversity loss. Many of these concerns,...

We study the effects of delivering a shock to a complex system comprising components ('agents') that interact in a pairwise fashion, independent of other parts of the system and with no central control. Such pairwise interactions ensure that the system develops with time in a self-determining...

Loss aversion and overconfidence are arguably the two most studied behavioral biases in finance, and yet often considered having contradictory effects on risk taking. Overconfident investors are generally more prone to take-on risk, whereas loss averse investors tend to be more cautious. We...

The forces and systems, which shape the available supply, composition and flow of talent into and out of organisations today have become increasingly complex and fluid. Most firms today extend their operations across regions and many compete globally, existing within one or more external...

Dieses Open-Access-Buch erläutert ein Handlungsmodell zur Gestaltung sozialer Versorgung. Das Modell beinhaltet 16 Gestaltungsaufgaben, die sich an den wesentlichen Planungs- und Steuerungsaufgaben sozialer Versorgung und den vier Phasen eines Managementkreislaufes (Analyse,...

"This fourth edition of the book represents a milestone in the history of the Systems Theory Framework of career development that attests to its continuing influence and contemporary relevance. It emphasises changes in career development theory, practice, and research since its first edition in...

In der aktuellen Diskussion um Alternativen zum privaten Fahrzeugbesitz spielen nachhaltige Mobilitätskonzepte wie Car- und Bikesharing-Systeme eine zentrale Rolle. Ihre Akzeptanz wird maßgeblich durch eine adäquate raum-zeitliche Verfügbarkeit der Fahrzeuge bestimmt. Daher stellt aus...