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9781032354972 |
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658.408 |
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Espinosa, Angela |
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Sustainable self-governance in businesses and society: |
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the viable system model in action |
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Routledge |
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New York |
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2023 |
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xxvi, 286 p. |
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GBP |
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29.99 |
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Table of Contents<br/>List of Figures<br/><br/>List of Tables<br/><br/>Preface<br/><br/>Acknowledgments<br/><br/>List of Abbreviations<br/><br/>List of Contributors<br/><br/>Introduction<br/><br/>1. Towards Self-Governed Businesses and Societies<br/><br/>Systems, Complexity, and Cybernetics Sciences<br/><br/>Organisational Cybernetics<br/><br/>Complex Systems Sciences<br/><br/>Complexification in the 21st Century<br/><br/>Understanding Complexity (and Variety)<br/><br/>What is Complexity and Variety?<br/><br/>Organisational Elements (O, M, E)<br/><br/>Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety<br/><br/>Viability vs Complexity Management<br/><br/>Managing Variety and Learning<br/><br/>Organisational Learning and Development<br/><br/>Managing Complexity in Organisations<br/><br/>Why We Need to Evolve Towards Sustainable Self-Governed Organisations<br/><br/>Summary<br/><br/>2. Organisational Viability (and Sustainability)<br/><br/>The Need for More Resilient Organisations and Societies<br/><br/>What is a Viable and Sustainable (v&s) Organisation?<br/><br/>The Physiological Inspiration<br/><br/>The Viable System Model<br/><br/>System 1 (S1)<br/><br/>System 2 (S2)<br/><br/>System 3 (S3)<br/><br/>S3: Generating Synergies<br/><br/>Aligning Meta-Systemic and Operational Management<br/><br/>Complementarity of S3 and S2 Roles<br/><br/>The Control Dilemma<br/><br/>System 3* (S3*)<br/><br/>System 4 (S4)<br/><br/>System 5 (S5)<br/><br/>The Recursive Viable System Theorem<br/><br/>Managing Complexity: Organisational Principles<br/><br/>Responsible Autonomy<br/><br/>Self-Regulation<br/><br/>Adaptation<br/><br/>Self-Governance<br/><br/>Sustainable Self-Governance<br/><br/>Leaving Behind Earlier Critics of the VSM<br/><br/>3. A Methodology to Support Self-transformation Towards Viability and Sustainability<br/><br/>On VSM Methodologies<br/><br/>Developing the Self-Transformation Methodology (STM)<br/><br/>The Ontology of the Observer<br/><br/>The STM: A Systemic Methodology to Facilitate Organisation Learning<br/><br/>On VSM Epistemology<br/><br/>The Self-Transformation Methodology in a Nutshell<br/><br/>Designing and Starting a v&s Project<br/><br/>Agreements on Organisational Identity<br/><br/>Rich Pictures - The Organisational Landscape<br/><br/>Statement of Organisational Identity<br/><br/>Recursive Analysis<br/><br/>VSM Preliminary Diagnosis<br/><br/>Mapping the Viable System of the System in Focus<br/><br/>Doing a VSM Preliminary Diagnosis<br/><br/>Complete VSM Diagnosis<br/><br/>Mapping v&s Roles and Mechanisms<br/><br/>Identifying and Mapping Diagnostic Issues<br/><br/>Assessing System 1’s Interactions<br/><br/>The Inside and Now (Systems 1, 2, and 3)<br/><br/>The Outside and Then (Systems 3, 4, and 5)<br/><br/>Aligning Strategy, Structure, and Information Systems<br/><br/>Aligning Strategy and Structure<br/><br/>Strategic Information Management<br/><br/>Self-Transformation Projects and Plan<br/><br/>Monitoring and Assessing Performance<br/><br/>Team Syntegrity<br/><br/>Summary<br/><br/>4. Towards More Resilient and Healthier Organisations and Societies<br/><br/>Organisational Health, Resilience, and Self-Governance<br/><br/>Early Alarms from the COVID-19 Pandemic<br/><br/>Towards More Resilient Individuals<br/><br/>Representing an Individual as a Viable (and Sustainable) System<br/><br/>Towards More Viable and Sustainable Individuals<br/><br/>Early Alarms to Businesses v&s<br/><br/>Towards More Resilient Businesses<br/><br/>Case study – M*Clean (with A.C. Martinez)<br/><br/>Towards More Resilient Health Providers<br/><br/>Preliminary VSM Analysis of the NHS in England<br/><br/>VSM Diagnosis of a Surgery Unit in a Local English Health Trust (with J. Walker and K. Grover)<br/><br/>Conclusions<br/><br/>5. 'Fits like a Glove': The VSM for Supporting More Systemic Educational Organisations<br/><br/>From Non-Systemic to Systemic Education and Educational Institutions<br/><br/>What Is a Non-Systemic Approach to Education?<br/><br/>Towards More Systemic Educational Institutions<br/><br/>Self-Transformation of ELF – The Whole Story (with Jon Walker and Vladimir Pop)<br/><br/>Clarifying the School’s Identity<br/><br/>Recursive Analysis<br/><br/>VSM Diagnosis<br/><br/>Aligning Strategy, Structure, and Information Systems<br/><br/>Self-Transformation Projects and Plan<br/><br/>Monitoring and Assessing Performance<br/><br/>Reviewing Elf’s Self-Transformation<br/><br/>Designing TINTA, a Systemic Education Online Provider (with G. Ramirez)<br/><br/>TINTA’s Approach to Systemic Education<br/><br/>Agreeing on TINTA’s Identity<br/><br/>Recursive Analysis - TINTA’s Primary Services<br/><br/>Designing TINTA’s Organisation with VSM Criteria<br/><br/>TINTA Coming to Life: First Self-Assessment<br/><br/>Systemic Education in Higher Education Institutions<br/><br/>Systemic Management in Universities around the World<br/><br/>Magdalena University (v&s) Case Study<br/><br/>Self-Transformation of Educational Institutions - Post-COVID-19<br/><br/>6. v&s in Organisational Networks<br/><br/>Complex Organisational Systems as Social Networks<br/><br/>The Rise of Social Networks (21st Century)<br/><br/>What is a v&s Network?<br/><br/>Background Research on VSM and Social Networks<br/><br/>Example: A v&s Industrial Network<br/><br/>Designing a State-Owned Enterprise on a Complex Environment (with A. Al Hinai and J. Walker)<br/><br/>Complexity Challenges to Design a National Broadband Network<br/><br/>VSM Design of the OBC<br/><br/>VSM Design<br/><br/>Social Network Analysis<br/><br/>Five Years Later<br/><br/>Redesigning a Latin-American 2nd Generation Broadband Network (with M. Giraldo and J. Walker)<br/><br/>The N2BN Identity<br/><br/>Recursive Analysis<br/><br/>VSM Diagnosis<br/><br/>Aligning Strategy and Structure<br/><br/>Designing Strategies for Supply Chain Integration at the UK Offshore Wind Industry (with Julija Danilova)<br/><br/>Analysing SCI with the STM<br/><br/>VSM Findings<br/><br/>Suggested Reorganisation Strategies<br/><br/>Learning from the Research<br/><br/>Dilemmas of Self-Governance in Organisational Networks<br/><br/>7. Sustainable Self-Governance<br/><br/>Contemporary Approaches to Governance<br/><br/>Traditional Approaches to Governance<br/><br/>Collaborative Approaches to Governance<br/><br/>Sustainable Self-Governance (v&s)<br/><br/>Towards Sustainable Self-Governance<br/><br/>A Framework to Assess Sustainable Self-Governance<br/><br/>Example: Sustainable Self-Governance in a Socio-Ecological System<br/><br/>Assessing Self-Governance in an Indigenous Community in the Amazon (with C. Duque)<br/><br/>Background on Their Governance Structures<br/><br/>VSM Analysis of Their Governance Structures<br/><br/>Learning from the v&s Project (by C. Duque)<br/><br/>Sustainable Self-Governance in an Afro-Caribbean Community (with C. Duran)<br/><br/>Past and Present of the Orika Community Council (OCC)<br/><br/>Assessing Sustainable Self-Governance at Orika<br/><br/>Learning from the Case Study (by C. Duran)<br/><br/>Conclusions<br/><br/>8. Facilitating Systemic Change with the VSM<br/><br/>Systemic Change: What It Is and How It Can Be Done<br/><br/>The Cybersyn Project<br/><br/>Strategic Information Management at the Colombian President’s Office (1990-1992)<br/><br/>Re-Engineering the National Auditing Office (NAO) in Colombia<br/><br/>Redesigning the NAO<br/><br/>The Model of the State<br/><br/>Implementing the ‘Systemic Auditing Process’<br/><br/>Learning from the Project<br/><br/>Monitoring the Impact of National Programs to Reduce Poverty in Colombia<br/><br/>Redesigning the National School System (NSS) in Colombia<br/><br/>Developing the National Environmental System (NES) in Colombia<br/><br/>The Relevance of Beers’ Legacy to Facilitate Systemic Change<br/><br/>The Need for Massive Systemic Changes to Improve Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic<br/><br/>9. An Idea Whose Time Has Come<br/><br/>Lessons on Using the VSM for Sustainable Self-Governance<br/><br/>Developing VSM-Related Methodologies and Tools<br/><br/>VSM and Multimethodology<br/><br/>VSM and Team Syntegrity<br/><br/>Addressing Traditional Criticisms to the VSM<br/><br/>VSM Research Landscape |
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Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society offers a sound introduction to Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM) and clarifies its relevance to support organisational sustainability and self-governance. While the VSM has been known since the early 1980s, it hasn’t been always easy to understand and to apply. It explains the self-transformation methodology to analyse the way organisations manage (or not) their complexity and govern themselves.<br/><br/>The work is supported by multiple examples of application in organisations of all scales – from small to multi-national corporations and from organised social networks to communities and national organisations. It clarifies the relevance of Beer’s theory to support systemic learning and change in organisations, and to coach them to self-organise and self-govern.<br/><br/>Readers interested in further understanding insights from complex systems and cybernetics theories for designing and transforming organisations will benefit from this book, as it works to offer very detailed insights on how to put the VSM theory into practice. It clarifies how it improves adaptive capabilities, agile and self-regulated structures, more capable of fully implementing corporate sustainability strategies and self-governing themselves. The chapters provide key reading for managers, consultants, practitioners, and post-graduate students working in organisational transformation, governance, and sustainability. |
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Social responsibility of business |
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Sustainable development |
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Book |