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Author(s): Marjatta Maula
ISBN(s): 9780080439198, 0080439195
Edition: 1
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Year: 2006
Language: english
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Author: Marjatta Maula 

The main contribution of this book is the living composition, the model of living organizations. It is a new and original interpretation of the theory of living, self-producing systems (autopoiesis theory). Living composition is defined here as strategic components and their relationships. A living organization is thereby a self-producing system that is composed of ten different non-physical strategic components that are continually produced by the organization itself. The components and their relationships are defined so that they enable and facilitate interconnected openness and closure, i.e. the ‘sensing’ (interactive openness) and ‘memory’ (self-referentiality) of an organization. These characteristics and related knowledge flows enable the capability to learn and co-evolve with the broader business ecosystem. This book also presents consistency/intentionality platforms and evolution models that help to evaluate the learning and renewal capability of an organization and to improve its enabling infrastructure. The living composition model has multiple implications for managers, consultants, and academics. It helps to identify the characteristics and development potential of the enabling structures of an organization, and to evaluate various development methods and activities in a larger framework. The sources of organizational learning and renewal are diverse and difficult to understand. This book shows how organizational learning and renewal can be explained by the theory of self-producing systems.
 

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION

  • A Structured Model of Living Composition – The Goal of This Book

  • How to Improve Survival and Success?

  • The Question of Creativity and Efficiency

  • Five Dilemmas of Learning and Knowledge: The Importance of Underlying Structures

  • Guide to Reading This Book

  • Summary

LEARNING AND EVOLVING ORGANIZATION

  • Learning as a Source of Strategic Advantages

  • Adaptation, Incremental Learning, and Imitation

  • Learning Organization

  • Organization as an Interpretation System

  • Organization as a System of Knowing

  • Resource-Based, Knowledge-Based, and Competence-Based Views of Learning and Renewal

  • Organizational Ecology

  • Summary

UNDERLYING STRUCTURES AND DYNAMICS

  • Earlier Approaches to Control, Self-Organization, and Emergence

  • Structural Aspects of Strategy

  • Consistency of Underlying Structure

  • Summary

ORGANIZATION AS A SYSTEM

  • Open System, Contingency Theory, System Dynamics, and Network Approaches

  • Theories about Complexity and Chaos

  • Summary

HOW TO APPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF SELF-PRODUCTION TO ORGANIZATIONS

  • Organization as a Living (Self-Producing, Autopoietic) System

  • Reality and Knowledge in Organizations

  • Knowledge-Related Concepts in Organizational Autopoiesis

  • Specific Questions about Applying Autopoiesis Theory to Organizations

  • Summary

THE LIVING COMPOSITION MODEL

  • Basic Principles

  • The Definition of the Living Composition Model

  • Summary

STRATEGIC COMPONENTS OF A LIVING ORGANIZATION

  • Identity

  • Perception of the Environment

  • Strategy

  • Knowledge and Knowledge Management

  • Boundary Elements

  • Interactive Processes and Communication

  • Triggers (Exposure to Triggers)

  • Experimentation

  • Internal Standards, Processes, and Communication

  • Information and Communication Systems

  • Summary

TWO MAJOR KNOWLEDGE FLOWS – ‘SENSING’ AND ‘MEMORY’

  • Openness and Closure

  • ‘Sensing’ – Interactive Openness

  • ‘Memory’ and Self-Referentiality

  • Linkage Between ‘Sensing’ and ‘Memory’

  • Summary

FOUR PARALLEL KNOWLEDGE PROCESSES

  • The Conventional Division Between Tacit and Explicit Knowledge

  • Four Parallel Knowledge Processes

  • Implications of Four Parallel Knowledge Processes

  • Summary

INTRODUCTION TO THE CASES

  • The Purpose of the Cases

  • Management Consulting Industry

  • Introduction to the Case Companies

CASE STUDIES

  1. Arthur Andersen (Business Consulting)

    • Strategic Components of Arthur Andersen

    • Arthur Andersen as a Living Organization

  2. Arthur D. Little (Europe)

    • Strategic Components of Arthur D. Little

    • Arthur D. Little as a Living Organization

  3. Ernst & Young (Management Consulting)

    • Strategic Components of Ernst & Young

    • Ernst & Young as a Living Organization

  4. The Kaospilots and Kaosmanagement

    • Strategic Components of The Kaospilots and Kaosmanagement

    • The Kaospilots and Kaosmanagement as a Living Organization

SUMMARY OF APPLYING THE LIVING COMPOSITION MODEL TO CASE ORGANIZATIONS

  • Strategic Components of the Case Firms

  • Major Knowledge Flows of the Case Firms

IMPROVING LIVING ORGANIZATIONS

  • Proactive and Passive Approaches

  • Consistency/Intentionality Platforms

  • Evolution Models

  • Six Steps for Improving a Living Composition

  • Summary

CONCLUSIONS

  • Summary of the Living Composition Model

  • Re-Framing of Control and Creativity in Light of the Living Composition Model

  • Reframing the Five Dilemmas

  • Living Composition – Managerial Implications

  • Living Composition – Theoretical Implications and Suggestions for Further Research

  • Living Composition – Implications for Teaching

REFERENCES

APPENDICES

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