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Gerard Endenburg (born 1933) is a Dutch entrepreneur, who developed the Sociocratic Circle Organisation Method (SCM), which is a decision-making method for governing and managing organizations and societies based on equivalence and draws inspiration from cybernetics. Endenburg was inspired by the idea of sociocracy of Kees Boeke.
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 Gerard Endenburg, 2018 | |
| Born | June 1933 |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Alma mater | University of Twente |
| Known for | Sociocracy |
Biography edit
Endenburg was born in Rotterdam in 1933.[1] He was a Quaker, and attended a Quaker boarding school, the Werkplaats Kindergemeenschap [Children's Community Workshop], where he was influenced by Kees Boeke and his wife Betty Cadbury and the ideas of sociocracy.[1] The school involved students in consensus decision-making.
He became general manager of his family's engineering company, Endenburg Elektrotechniek BV, in the mid-1960s, and in the 1970s started pioneering and applying the sociocratic method of organizing within the company.[1] In 1978, Endenburg founded the Sociocratic Center Netherlands to develop and implement the sociocratic approach in other organizations, serving as its director.[1] In 1992, Endenburg obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Twente, based on his dissertation Sociocratie als Sociaal Ontwerp, translated into English as Sociocracy as Social Design.[2] Endenburg was an honorary professor in Organizational Learning at Maastricht University.[3]
Bibliography edit
- Sociocracy as Social Design: its characteristics and course of development, as theoretical design and practical project. Translated by Pearson, Murray; Bowden, Clive. Delft: Eburon. 1998. ISBN 978-90-5166-604-5. OCLC 67947732.
- Sociocracy: the Organization of Decision-Making: "no objection" as the Principle of Sociocracy. Translated by Bowden, Clive. Delft: Eburon. 1998. ISBN 978-90-5166-605-2. OCLC 41641481.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d Quarter, J. (2000) Beyond the Bottom Line: Socially Innovative Business Owners, Greenwood Press, p. 53-66.
- ^ Endenburg 1998a.
- ^ Cooper, Rachel; Junginger, Sabine; Lockwood, Thomas (2011). The Handbook of Design Management. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472570178.