How do people and institutions manage to bring their different perspectives into an effective
and productive interplay? How can we overcome obstacles for the creative potentials of
distributed perspectives? Traditionally the perspectives of people and institutions are
considered to be fixed and isolated points of view. In such a picture the perspectives seem
determined in advance by positions and persons seem trapped within their perspectival horizons.
In contrast the new approach of this volume's contributions focuses on the simple but
fundamental fact that people (in their perceiving speaking thinking and acting) always
already refer to fellow human beings and coordinate their own perspectives with those of other
persons and institutions. The contributions of the present volume concentrate on the structures
mechanisms and dynamics of the interplays of different perspectives of interacting
communicating and cooperating persons and institutions. The volume focuses on how the creative
potentials as well as the organizational effectiveness of distributed perspectives can be set
free.
