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The paper handles central topics of social system theory, such as contingency,emergence, communication, reality construction based on cognitive epistemology, and differential logic. The conducted discussion is embedded in the construction of a hermeneutic approach to social system theory. Communication is a decisive part of economic systems, but often it is not object of scientific research on economic topics. Even informal business communication is seldom part of economic terms and models. To understand the meaning of social systems from a firms' and methodological perspective we must develop a phase scheme driven by communication, because of their decisive structural role for social systems. Hermeneutic means hereby, from an observer's point of view, a kind of didactical, philosophical opening of business life experiences – it is much more than pure text interpretation. Hence, the observer of social systems has to redefine his own language based preconditions of understanding social systems communication.

The overall 'social system-perspective on firms and organizations points out the role of 'communication' as the decisive construction tool for a social system. However, this point of view in the tradition of Niklas Luhmann, neglects the concrete transfer of systemic principles into the context of daily organisational operations. The paper offers an methodological interpretation of systemic principles for firms and organisations to close the gap between the general knowledge of social system and the managerial consequences on communication fields. The achievement in the spirit of social system awareness is based on three steps: first, paraphrasing the principles, second, sensitising the observer to the interconnectedness of principles, third, thinking managerial action on the communication field through.

Zwischenbetriebliche Kooperationen zur Bewältigung der Umweltschutzproblematik bei der Produktentstehung,- nutzung und -entsorgung bieten für Unternehmen zahlreiche Vorteile. Voraussetzung ist jedoch das Bestreben, die ökologischen und okönomischen Interessen eines Unternehmens in Einklang zu bringen. Ausgehend von Gründen, die für Umweltschutzkooperationen sprechen, werden hier Partner vorgestellt, die für solche Kooperationen in Frage kommen. Anhand ausgewählter Umweltschutzmaßnahmen werden mögliche Kooperationsmodelle vorgestellt und Empfehlungen abgeleitet. Konkrete Beispiele aus der Automobilindustrie untermauern die Relevanz zwischenbetrieblicher Abstimmungen. Der Autor stellt außerdem auch mögliche Anreize zur Förderung zwischenbetrieblicher Umweltschutzkooperationen vor