Identity and Structural Archetypes

Raul Espejo () and Alfonso Reyes ()
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Raul Espejo: Syncho Ltd.
Alfonso Reyes: Universidad de Ibague

Chapter Chapter 12 in Organizational Systems, 2011, pp 233-255 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter uses the VSM to understand and observe how people in organizations manage their own complexity as they strive to maintain stability in a chaotic environment. The VSM offers strategies to manage complexity at the least cost to people and organizations. People manage organizational complexity intuitively and of course in the process they make more or less costly mistakes. The aim of this chapter is increasing our ability to observe and diagnose shortcomings in this management. It offers practical support to diagnose common communication failures. These failures tend to be archetypical in the sense that they are recurrent observations made in many organizations. The value of archetypes is facilitating the diagnosis of identity and structural problems. From a methodological perspective they highlight the shortcomings of the organizational systems in which people experience performative situations or difficulties in implementing change.

Keywords: Local Manager; Business Unit; Primary Activity; Dynamic Capability; Global Manager (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19109-1_12

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