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Organizational Structures Supporting Rich Survival

In: Organizations

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  • Jan Achterbergh

    (Radboud University Nijmegen Fac. Management Sciences)

  • Dirk Vriens

    (Radboud University Nijmegen Fac. Management Sciences)

Abstract

Aristotle’s ethics provides us with a description of what it means to live a fulfilled life. However, this description is not an end in itself. What we are really after is formulating a set of principles allowing for the design of organizational structures supporting “rich survival.” In order to find both these principles and the structures that result from their application, we need to take two additional steps. Rich survival, as described in Chap. 1, is about organizations contributing to the creation of societal conditions, enabling human beings to live a fulfilled life. Until now, we only discussed the “fulfilled life”-part of this description. To explain how organizations can provide a rich contribution to society, we first need to discuss the relation between organizations and society. This is the topic of Sect. 11.2. Once we have a model of how organizations are related to society, we can go into the question what this relation should look like, i.e., which requirements should be met, if organizations are to make a rich contribution to society. Based on these requirements, we define principles for the design of their structure. Moreover, we can, in terms of de Sitter’s parameters, discuss organizational structures fitting these principles. This is the topic of Sect. 11.3. In Sect. 11.4, we summarize and discuss our findings.

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  • Jan Achterbergh & Dirk Vriens, 2009. "Organizational Structures Supporting Rich Survival," Springer Books, in: Organizations, chapter 0, pages 345-372, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-00110-9_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00110-9_11
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