TY - BOOK AU - Lukas Scheiber PY - 2012 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783653016864 TI - Next Taylorism T2 - A Calculus of Knowledge Work DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-01686-4 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046079 N2 - In 1911, Frederick W. Taylor published one of the most outstanding scientific cornerstones for the production system of the 20th century – The Principles of Scientific Management. Today, industrial production is confronted with a change towards knowledge-intensive and transformable production systems, which are characterized by knowledge work. A Taylor-based reconception of knowledge work has to develop an understanding of knowledge work as a special form of communication. The corresponding scientific background for such an endeavor can be found in system theory and second-order cybernetics. The book conceptualizes the organization of knowledge work for the first time as a function which coordinates and controls knowledge work from within and which initially discusses and applies methods, the so-called MXM, on the knowledge workers. KW - Wissensarbeit, Systemtheorie, Kybernetik, Netzwerkanalyse, Laws of Form, Luhmann, Niklas, Taylor, Frederick Winslow LA - English ER -