Systems thinking benefits in supply change management: an illustration of the viable systems model in a Supply Chain

Chronéer, Diana; Mirijamdotter, Anita

doi:10.1504/ijista.2009.024256

Cited by 13 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 47 publications

(46 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Likewise previous applications of Viable System Model to Companies (Hoverstadt et al 2007;Espejo 1979;Al-Mutairi et al 2005;Chan 2011); Political Systems (Beer 1981); Insurance Sector (De Raadt 1987); Financial Sector (Trueba et al 2012); Innovation (Devine 2005;Amar et al 2006); Intranets (Nyström 2006); Project Management (Britton and Parker 1993;Morales et al 2012;Murad and Cavana 2012); Supply Chain (Chronéer and Mirijamdotter 2009;Badillo et al 2011); Health Sector (Monreal 2004;Midgley 2006); Energy Sector (Shaw et al 2004;Terra et al 2016); Education Sector (Ramírez et al 2009;Rojas and Tuesta 2011); Social Organizations (Espinosa and Walker 2013); Technology (Puche et al 2017); Service Science (Barile and Polese 2010); Sustainability (Schwaninger 2015); Hotels (Gmür et al 2010) and Communications (Espejo 2004); all intended to recommend improvement solutions in their respective fields.…”

Section: Document Sources Reviewmentioning

confidence: 83%

Integrating VSM and Network Analysis for Tourism Strategies – Case: Mexico and the Chinese Outbound Market

Arenas

Martínez

et al. 2019

Syst Pract Action Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

With China leading since 2012 global outbound travel, this paper introduces a Systemic Model for Chinese Outbound Market exemplifying with Mexico's Case study, the seventh most visited country worldwide. Seeking to contribute increasing the applications of VSM, deepening its understanding and relevance stating proper functions integration to face Chinese Outbound Market leadership occurred in global tourism environment. First section of the manuscript introduces research objectives and gaps as well as document sources review discussion; second section details research design; third section covers proposed model and it's functions' operationalization, as well as network science analysis of information collected during an academical research stay on 2016 from Mexico National Polytechnic Institute to China Sun Yat Sen University Zhuhai Campus Tourism Faculty, and the Centrality measures found to confirm model pertinence.

show abstract

Section: Document Sources Reviewmentioning

confidence: 83%

Integrating VSM and Network Analysis for Tourism Strategies – Case: Mexico and the Chinese Outbound Market

Arenas

Martínez

et al. 2019

Syst Pract Action Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…VSM defines the system structure of a supply chain and organises collaboration, while TOC implements system behaviour, i.e., integrates processes and defines performance measures. Chronéer and Mirijamdotter (2009) examine how supply chain management and the Viable System Model (VSM) can support and create effective use of information in product development and thus identify critical links in a supply chain. Anderluh et al (2020) apply a model for the location selection of a midi-hub of a medium city centre in Vienna using an AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process)-based decision-making support tool.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of specific tools of the Theory of Constraints – a case study

Stopka

Zitrický

Ľupták

et al. 2023

CogSust

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Theory of Constraints is a management tool for continuously improving corporate performance. In the USA, it has been very successful, above all due to the contribution of a comprehensive assessment of the issues of managerial control. Its development has also been taking place in the Czech Republic. This paper aims to present the Theory of Constraints tools and then apply some of them to a specific enterprise in logistics activities. The findings in terms of detecting and widening the bottleneck afterwards should exert a positive impact on corporate performance. Current Reality Tree, Conflict Diagram and Future Reality Tree are applied in the paper to eliminate undesirable effects that prevent the enterprise from increasing its performance. Besides providing this specific enterprise with concrete solutions to identified issues, this study aims at depicting the procedure for implementing the methods of the Theory of Constraints, including specific results and benefits of the suggested solutions, along with the quantification of their costs, savings and throughput.

show abstract

“…Among the different research streams that have contributed to the application of systems thinking for the study of social and economic dynamics, relevant stimuli have been offered by the Viable Systems Model (VSM) [61][62][63][64][65][66][67] and the Viable Systems Approach (VSA) [25,31,[68][69][70][71][72][73][74]. More specifically, the first one has offered a general representation of social and economic organizations, based on the functioning of human nervous system [75][76][77], while the second one has updated the managerial knowledge by investigating the dimensions that affect systems' behaviours and choices and by offering a systems representation for every kind of organized entity aimed to survive in a specific domain [78][79][80].…”

Section: A Systems View Of Cities and Citizensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the Users’ Approach to ICT Platforms in the City Management

Caputo

Walletzký

2017

Systems

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract:The increasing relevance of technology and its impact on our everyday life requires multi-and trans-disciplinary studies in order to investigate the ways in which the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools are affected by users' features and by the external environment. In order to enrich existing contributions on this topic, the paper focuses its attention on the city as example of service systems, in order to investigate dimensions and dynamics that influence the city employees' evaluation and satisfaction in the use of ICT platforms. By adopting the interpretative lens offered by Service Science and Systems Thinking, the domain of city as a service system is analysed and some hypotheses are formulated with reference to the relationships between environment, users, and ICT platform. The hypotheses are investigated through a questionnaire survey on a sample of 1032 municipalities in the Czech Republic and the results are tested using Structural Equation Modelling. The research shows that users' features and external environment affect the evaluation and the satisfaction of city stakeholders about the use of ICT platforms by underlining the need for enlarging the study on informatics tools, in order to also include subjective variables. The findings are discussed from both theoretical and practical points of view.

show abstract

Systems thinking benefits in supply change management: an illustration of the viable systems model in a Supply Chain

Cited by 13 publications

References 47 publications

Integrating VSM and Network Analysis for Tourism Strategies – Case: Mexico and the Chinese Outbound Market

Integrating VSM and Network Analysis for Tourism Strategies – Case: Mexico and the Chinese Outbound Market

Application of specific tools of the Theory of Constraints – a case study

Investigating the Users’ Approach to ICT Platforms in the City Management

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About