Organizational Systems Managing Complexity with the Viable System Model /

• Main Authors: Espejo, Raul (Author), Reyes, Alfonso (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Organization.; Planning.; Social sciences.; Business and Management.; Business and Management, general.; Social Sciences, general.

This book clarifies the application of cybernetic ideas, particularly those of Beer's Viable System Model, to organizational diagnosis and design. Readers learn to appreciate the relevance of seeing the systemic coherence of the world. The book argues that many of the problems we experience tod...