Viable and Sustainable Networks

Angela Espinosa and Jon Walker

Chapter 5 in A Complexity Approach to Sustainability:Theory and Application, 2017, pp 249-313 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: In the previous chapters, we have explored how we can develop Beer’s original viability theory into sustainability research, at the levels of individual businesses or projects, and more widely, of communities and societies. Beer developed the basic theory and applied it to both businesses and societies. The theory started from understanding a viable system as a neural network type of organization, based on the cybernetic principles of self-organization and self-regulation, as the next section will explain.

Keywords: Sustainable Development; Operations Management; Complexity Science; Climate Change; Viability and Sustaibility; Management Systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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