Foundations of Enterprise Governance and Enterprise Engineering

Presenting the Employee-Centric Theory of Organization
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-030-10157-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 574 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 890 g

Reihe: The Enterprise Engineering Series

This book outlines the important foundational insights for enterprise governance and enterprise engineering, which are obviously provided by the social and organization sciences, but also by other sciences such as philosophy and information technology. It presents an employee-centric theory of organization in order to secure enterprise performance and also to comply with moral considerations about society and human individuals. This is necessary as prescriptions based on ‘best practices’ or the ‘best managed companies’ are often merely anecdotal, faddish, or controversial, and based on unsubstantiated pseudo-theories.
The book consists of four main chapters, the first of which summarizes the importance of foundational insights for enterprises and explains the mutual relationships between the basic elements of enterprise governance and enterprise engineering. Next, chapter 2 explains the necessary philosophical foundations concerning knowledge, truth, language, and human existence. Subsequently, chapter 3 describes the ontological foundation and the nature of society and enterprises, as understanding their characteristics is a prerequisite for understanding and designing enterprises. Finally, chapter 4 approaches ideological foundations as beliefs and convictions, as they create specific requirements for the design of enterprises. In this way, the book covers all the cornerstones of the employee-centric theory of organization, drawing on foundational insights.
The book is mainly intended for students specializing in areas such as business administration, management and organization science, governance, and enterprise and information systems design. However, professionals working in these areas will also benefit from the book, as it allows them to gain a deeper understanding of the theoretical foundations of their work and will thus help them to avoid strategic failures due to a lack of coherence and consistency between the various parts of their organization.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoogervorst, Jan A. P.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 The importance of foundational insights for enterprises.- 2 Philosophical foundation.- 3 Ontological foundation.- 4 Ideological foundation.

Über Autor(innen)

Jan A.P. Hoogervorst studied Electrical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, and completed his dissertation in Work and Organizational Psychology at the Amsterdam Free University. He fulfilled a number of executive management functions at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. After retirement from KLM he worked at Sogeti as an organization and management consultant, and as professor in Enterprise Governance and Enterprise Engineering at the Antwerp Management School.