An explication of the viable system model for project management

Britton, G. A.; Parker, Jeffrey

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“…International business practice shows that renewable resources, recycling and sound a great deal of development potential, at least in the near future, the Chinese market practitioners have access to social average profit [6]. The current capacity of our environment not as a strict supervision of the limited resources, businesses and general consumers pay for waste and sewage charges is not only far l � w � r than the compensation for pollution damage, and even slgnlficantly lower than the cost of pollution control, which makes cycle production processes can not show the effectiveness of the source, recycling is difficult to recover the cost of production processes, resulting in the current cycle of the economy under the market economy mode of production is difficult to arise spontaneously.…”

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Notice of Retraction: The analysis of cyclic economy development based on enterprises in China

Hong-mei

2010

2010 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Management Science(ICAMS 2010)

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in western industrialized countries, the cyclic economy come from industrial sustainable development into economic and social development stage of a new philosophy and practice. As one of the two major themes of sustainable development, cyclic economy has become a global development trends and common concerns of mankind. This paper briefly described based on the theory of cyclic economy, combined with our present economic situation of business development cycle, from the conditions of the business, regional development of cyclic economy, market mechanisms and government regulation of the four aspects of the development of cyclic economy in China constraints, and address these issues into the appropriate measures to promote the development of cyclic economy to provide Chinese enterprises and references.

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Notice of Retraction: The analysis of cyclic economy development based on enterprises in China

Hong-mei

2010

2010 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Management Science(ICAMS 2010)

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“…The successful archetypes were all viable systems, the unsuccessful archetypes were not. The diagnostic strengths of the VSM are also supported by Britton and Parker (1993) who modelled project management using the VSM. They state that the VSM`provides a powerful means for analysing de®ciencies in the management of a project [and] can be used as a guide to design new systems'.…”

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A cybernetic view of environmental management: the implications for business organizations

Lewis

1997

Bus. Strat. Env.

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“…However, existing applications of the VSM have not responded to this issue and mostly only focus on the rigorous identification of sub-units (e.g. Al-Mutari et al 2005;Britton and Parker 1993;Christopher 2007;Espejo 1989;Espejo et al 1999;Ríos 2006). Guidelines and recommendations for measuring variety are scarce.…”

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The variety engineering method: analyzing and designing information flows in organizations

Rosenkranz

Holten

2010

Inf Syst E-Bus Manage

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In every organization, various decisions have to be made continuously, from the simple choice, which customer order to be processed next, to the serious question, whether to select a new supplier or to cancel an existing one. All of these decisions are supported by the provision of relevant information. Therefore the efficiency of a value chain is strongly influenced by the accurate setup of information flows. To make organizations more effective and efficient, one needs to understand what information flows are currently available and how information flows should be designed for a given organization. However, there is hardly any methodology available in order to analyze and redesign information flows in organizations in a structured way. Using the design science research framework, we develop a method for the analysis and design of information flows in organizations. Our research on the Variety Engineering Method (VEM) attempts to develop a method to analyze, diagnose and design information flows. VEM is built based on systems theory and cybernetics, especially the Viable System Model. VEM has been tested internally, and evaluated externally through field studies. In this paper, we present VEM in detail and discuss some general issues involved in its development, including the application of concepts form method engineering and evaluation in field studies.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (

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An explication of the viable system model for project management

Cited by 20 publications

References 3 publications

Notice of Retraction: The analysis of cyclic economy development based on enterprises in China

Notice of Retraction: The analysis of cyclic economy development based on enterprises in China

A cybernetic view of environmental management: the implications for business organizations

The variety engineering method: analyzing and designing information flows in organizations

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