Processes Vis-A-Vis Systems: Toward a Model of the Enterprise and Administration

Abstract

It is the central thesis of this paper that the enterprise can usefully be described as a man-directed, dynamic network of processes and facilitating systems, and that a useful model of the administrator's job logically follows from this description. We shall first contrast the concepts of “process” and “system” and then integrate these concepts with certain other constructs toward building (a) a model of the enterprise and (b) a model of the administrator's job.