Baumann, K. (2026)
The Way into Global Democracy
in: COMPASS – The Global Voice of Professional Futurists
Jan – Feb 2026, p. 115-121
Baumann, K. (2020)
Art Sustainability Art – Change through Freely Organized Concern
in: respACT – austrian business council for sustainable development, Vienna
Baumann, K. (2007)
Freedom, Equality, Teaching. Narratively Designed Seminars
in: NHH – New Handbook of University Teaching 2 29 07 08, E 3.5
Baumann, K. (2005)
Organisation der Strategie
(Organisation of the Strategy)
Carl-Auer Publishing
The text sharpens the eye for the difference between theory and practice in order to deconstruct the persistent promises of “truth” and success of economic and organizational theories. It offers a critique of the major theories of strategy and organization based on presuppositions. Through the precise reproduction of the world of thought (in the personification of the artistic form “Vitalis”) that the author developed during extensive organizational consulting projects, a path is constructed between “useless theory” and unruly practical experience.
The text is exceptional in every respect. It offers a critical discussion without a clear beginning or end, replacing the usual linear arguments, abstract idealistic statements, and model speculations.
The object of investigation is not tampered with until it fits a method. The author, with experience, begins with the openness and uncertainty in the organization of strategy and makes this a tangible topic.
Baumann, K. (2004)
Strategy and Politics. A Critical Reflection on the Chamber of Commerce Reform in the years 2000 till 2003 – A Paradoxical Attempt
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Baumann, K. (2002)
From Performance to Transformation
in: HLO-inside 2/02, Zurich (HLOmanagementforum-Zürich)
Baumann, K. (2002)
Zur Wertigkeit von „gut“ und „schlecht“
(On the value of “good” and “bad”)
Carl-Auer Publishing
This book represents an attempt to describe “truths” that were previously only intuitively perceptible. The construct of ‘performance’ and its ‘measurement’ and ‘evaluation’ as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are hardly rationally comprehensible and are largely used, if not employed, in dogmatic contexts (churches, businesses, schools, etc.).
Why is one better than another, one better than another, more better than less? What determines how something is evaluated, and what happens in the process?
The illusion of reality and the seemingly simple question of ‘better’ are crystallizing into a breaking point. The meaning of our actions and our imagined understanding of the concept of ‘performance’, in its value so far-reaching for our society, are disillusioned by the ‘theory of the large’ (theory of relativity) and the ‘theory of the small’ (quantum physics). From a social science perspective in the context of these two theories, the text attempts to decisively unveil the concepts of ‘performance’, ‘measurement’ and ‘evaluation’ in order to develop new ways of thinking and applying them.
Baumann, K./Nausner, P. (2001)
The Reform of the Chambers of Commerce as an Organizational Reform
in: Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, 6/2001, Vienna
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