Management in der Hypermoderne

Management in a modern world dominated by competitive pressures: This is post-Archimedean management, management without a fixed point and secure foundation, yet still capable of moving the earth; management in the context of radical contingency, escalating path dependencies, and the impossibility of bridging the gap of contingency with perfect or even somewhat secure justificatory frameworks. If, as the oft-cited dictum of Foerster suggests, decisions are precisely necessary when they are impossible: How do decision-makers, whether individuals or organizations, make their choices? What lies beyond indecision? Beyond merely subjective, seemingly virtuous, or arbitrary constructions of good reasons and their deconstruction? The book explores answers in the realms of the paradoxes of decision-making, contingency and complexity, portfolio and.