From Apollo to Information Science: Information as Organization Theory, Organization Theory as Information — A Whole Systems Critique

作者: Ian I. Mitroff

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-7759-7_19

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摘要: We live in a society where the production and handling of information has become increasingly more important. For this reason alone it behooves us to ask what relation if any there is between structure an organization kinds activities typically able support.1 If we go bit further conceive its broadest most generic sense as product some basic process inquiry,2 then general question can philosophy science contribute study organizations, i.e., development theory relationship broadly conceived. The purpose paper raise precisely question.

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