Book on 'Cybernetics and Transformation' published

Sven-V. Rehm • June 18, 2017

The proceedings of the annual conference 2015 of the Society for Managerial and Social Cybernetics (German: Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialkybernetik GWS e.V. ) have now been published by Duncker & Humblot, Berlin.

Professor Thomas Fischer, who has co-chaired the conference in 2015 and sadly passed away in 2016 is named editor, together with Sven-V. Rehm.

The conference volume comprises 12 articles that report on the current state of management and social cybernetics research . For the context of Digital Transformation , research results and applications are presented from various perspectives. The contributions provide a variety of interdisciplinary insights into how today's forms and technologies of communication influence organizations and how systems can be systematically described and modeled in their entire diversity.

Find more information on the book at the publisher's website.

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