Design and Diagnosis for Sustainable Organizations: The Viable System Method (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783642223174)

How can organizations and their managers face the tremendous complexity of the current environment? How can their compliance with the requirements of sustainability be evaluated? And how can new organizations be structured to ensure their viability? This book addresses these questions in a very practical way, essentially combining systems theory with cybernetics to help managers to evaluate and shape organizations by making accessible the wealth of knowledge contained in these fields. Importantly, it also provides guidelines for its practical application.

Author: Jose Perez Rios
ISBN-10: 3642223176
ISBN-13: 9783642223174
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2012
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.70d