Metasystem Transitions and Sustainability in Human Organizations. Part 1 - Towards Organizational Synergetics

Graziano Terenzi
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A chapter in Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development, 2006, pp 585-600 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This two-paper series deals with the problem of understanding the relations between viability and sustainability in the context of social metasystem transitions occurring in a global environment. PART I of the paper argues that metasystem transitions in human organizations can be better understood by resorting to concepts from Synergetics, such as those of slaving principle, order parameter and control within order parameter equations. The subject of Organizational Synergetics is thus introduced. After recognizing the centrality of observation processes, an integration to Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model is proposed, which includes a dedicated observing subsystem for the detection of both internal and environmental order parameters. The signal flow graph of the subsystem is constructed and a scheme of its overall transfer function is also derived.

Keywords: emergence; metasystem transitions; viability; sustainability; Viable System Model; organizational synergetics; control of order parameters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/0-387-28898-8_41

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