Principles of Self-Organization — In a Socio-Managerial Context

Abstract

I have to confess that when I first received the kind invitation from Dr. Probst to participate in a meeting entitled “Management and Self-Organization in Social Systems” I was not quite clear about my role in such a meeting. I am not a stranger to the notion of Self-Organization; but when I considered it in the context of management and, moreover, in the environment of a Hochschule für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, I felt lost. I understand so little about management that already in grade school my teachers complained that this boy is unmanageable. In fact, I had to look “management” up in my dictionary (1). Here I found that it is derived from... “constraining the movement of hands”, having the same root as “to manacle”, that is, putting someone into handcuffs: I was prepared to decline this invitation.KeywordsInternal StateState FunctionBlack SpotFinite State MachineRecursive ComputationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.