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Espejo, Rául; Bula, Germán; Zarama, Roberto

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“…The ministry, as an institution, depends on the collaboration of thousands of schools and millions of families to deliver the country's necessary educational services. Unless it succeeds in creating this larger organizational system, the ministry will fail in delivering the country's educational policy (Espejo, Bula, & Zarama, 2001), (Espejo & Reyes, 2011). The system in focus is the educational system, and this is the 'extended enterprise' that needs of an evolving ECM for the design and development of an educational systems beyond the ministry alone.…”

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The enterprise complexity model: An extension of the viable system model for emerging organizational forms

Espejo¹

2020

Syst Res Behav Sci

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An enterprise complexity model (ECM) is offered as a methodological tool for the actors of an enterprise to overcome complex environmental problems. The heuristic for this purpose is the viable system model, which guides an enterprise's self-organization towards policies creating, regulating and producing sustainable development goals. Self-organization is grounded in correcting imbalanced interactions between an enterprise's actors and their environmental agents, to increase their requisite variety to achieve sustainability, that is, to overcome environmental problems. The interactions between actors and agents are facilitated by current and emergent digital technologies, which support the structuring of collaborative networks. Reflexive interactions between the enterprise's actors and agents in the problematic environment help their branching into all kinds of innovative organizational forms. The Viplan methodology is used to achieve this branching, which accounts for the enterprise's complexity with the support of the Viplan method. Respect for the environment and quality of interactions are values driving this ecology of enterprises towards a deeper and wider appreciation of the issues besetting future generations.

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Section: Public Sector Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The enterprise complexity model: An extension of the viable system model for emerging organizational forms

Espejo¹

2020

Syst Res Behav Sci

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Theories of viability: a comparison

Schwaninger

2006

Syst. Res.

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Given the growing complexities in the environments of organizations and societies, the concept of viability has become ever more important as an orientator for those in charge. The Systems Approach has bred powerful theories of viability, which can help actors in the socio‐technical domain to cope with complexity. The two main manifestations of the Theory of Viability are Living Systems Theory (LST) by Jim & Jessie Miller on one hand, and the Viable System Model (VSM) by Stafford Beer on the other. In this paper, both are analysed and compared in terms of their relevance and potential with respect to social systems. Also, a brief overview of the state of pertinent applications is given. The paper comes to an unexpected conclusion: LST and VSM are not competitors, but most probably complementary. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The Viable System Model: Effective Strategies to Manage Complexity

Espejo¹,

Reyes

2011

Organizational Systems

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The enterprise complexity model: An extension of the viable system model for emerging organizational forms

The enterprise complexity model: An extension of the viable system model for emerging organizational forms

Theories of viability: a comparison

The Viable System Model: Effective Strategies to Manage Complexity

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