SpringerLink - Journal Article: "The cybernetic institution: Toward an integration of governance theories
The cybernetic institution: Toward an integration of governance theories
Journal Higher Education
Publisher Springer Netherlands
ISSN 0018-1560 (Print) 1573-174X (Online)
Issue Volume 18, Number 2 / March, 1989
DOI 10.1007/BF00139183
Pages 239-253
Subject Collection Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
SpringerLink Date Saturday, November 06, 2004
The cybernetic institution: Toward an integration of governance theories
Robert Birnbaum1, 2
(1) National Center for Postsecondary Governance and Finance, USA
(2) Teachers College, Columbia University, Columbia, USA
Abstract This paper presents a new conceptual approach to institutional governance, management, and leadership based upon a cybernetic model of organizations. The cybernetic paradigm integrates existing models by suggesting how bureaucratic, collegial, political, and anarchical subsystems function simultaneously in colleges and universities of all kinds to create self-correcting institutions. The cybernetic paradigm posits that organization control systems can be described in terms of sensing mechanisms and negative feedback loops that collectively monitor changes from acceptable leve"
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