Tame, Wicked, and Super Wicked Systems Archetypes

Christoph E. Mandl ()
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Christoph E. Mandl: University of Vienna

Chapter Chapter 8 in Managing Complexity in Social Systems, 2023, pp 95-98 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract From virology, it is well known that there exist many more types of viruses than actually infect people and causeCause diseases. The same holds for structuresStructure of social systemsSocial system. A rather small number of relatively simple structures appear repeatedly in different businesses, professions, and real-life settings. Such system structuresStructure that produce patterns of problematic behavior are called “archetypes”Archetype. A scheme of differentiation is adopted, which characterizes each systems archetypeSystems archetype as tame, wicked, or super wicked to manage.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30222-0_8

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