ABSTRACT
In actual practice, the first and second meanings of organisation—as a principle or as an object or artefact—are intertwined. The chapter presents the field of co-ordination mechanisms and elaborates the ways to divide an organisation, company or institution as well as what exactly is divided. This division can be carried out in terms of processes, functions or tasks. It deals with the organisation as a principle and discusses examples of co-ordination mechanisms, organisational forms, governance, dependencies or interdependencies and deal with the subject of management. The chapter explores organisational dynamics and changes as well as business development. Like people, organisations do not stand still. They either change more or less autonomously on the basis of an internal vision or strategy, or because of stimuli and events issuing from the external environment.
