Cover -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 DECISION MAKING PROCESSES -- 1.1 Research methods -- 1.2 Records -- 1.3 Two forms of business processes: decision making versus production -- 1.4 Decision making -- 1.5 Bureaucracy -- 1.6 Systems theory and business processes -- 2 THE HISTORICAL SHIFT FROM COMMITTEE TO PAPER BASED -- 2.1 Monocratic form -- 2.2 Historical forms of oral committee based government -- 2.3 Basic forms of oral deliberation in historical administrations -- 2.4 Conceptual orality' of writing -- 2.5 Differentiation of functional competencies -- 2.6 Committee based decision making and modern bureaucratic -- 2.7 Classical collaborative decision making processes -- 2.8 Work process guidelines for the central ministries: legacy from the -- 2.9 Business processes in post-war German government -- 3 RECORDS -- 3.1 Forms and functions of records and files -- 3.2 Organisational backgrounds -- 4 FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF OPEN COMMUNICATION -- 4.1 Needs of autonomous open ended processes -- 4.2 Needs for stability and functions of archives in electronic -- 4.3 Archival Functions in Digital Environments -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Summary
"The history of German administrative practice and its special methods of using disposals for the control of common processes shows the creation of records as based on communication needs generated by the intention of joint actions. For electronic decision making processes the purposes remain the same, but the means have to follow the effects of electronic communication on messages."--Jacket
Notes
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer for the venia legendi in administrative sciences and administrative computer sciences, 2004
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-209) and index
