In this textbook; Joachim Wolf explains and discusses the most important organizational; management and corporate governance theories. In particular; the background to the origin; the form of argumentation and the content of the statement; possible fields of application; the underlying image of man and conceptual developments of these theories are discussed. Before this; the importance of theories in the academic world in general and in organizational; management and corporate governance theory in particular is explained. Finally; the author makes a criteriabased comparison of the theories.
For the 5th edition; the textbook has again been thoroughly revised and readability and comprehensibility have been further improved. Essential text additions can be found in the chapters on the information processing approach and on the new institutional economic theory. Numerous scientific studies published in Germany and abroad have been incorporated and the practical examples have been revised and updated.