Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from January 2007

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from January 2007

Editorial.(Editorial)
January 1, 2007... We start this new volume of Systems Research and Behavioral Science with a bumper collection of papers. There are three complementary themes that flow through this issue: stakeholder identification, conversation, and design. The research...

Critically identifying stakeholders: evaluating boundary critique as a vehicle for stakeholder identification.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Stakeholder involvement has become a topic of considerable attention, both in literature as in organizational practice. One of the still unresolved issues in stakeholder theory and stakeholder management is the question of who...

Reflections on the New Agoras Project: a report on a Fuschl Conversation [(dagger)].(Research Paper)
January 1, 2007... THE NEW AGORAS PROJECT The New Agoras Project is a form of discursive organization proposed by Banathy (2000). The International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR) Fuschl conversation in 2002 afforded an opportunity for nurturing what...

Team syntegrity as a learning tool: some considerations about its capacity to promote critical learning ([dagger]).(Research Paper)
January 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Team Syntegrity has resulted from the last 11 years of research of the late Professor Stafford Beer. Following his work on the Viable System Model, in which he introduced a criteria for studying the capacity of social...

The hijab and systemic governance: transnational policy making and human rights.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION 'Vision is always a question of the power to see and perhaps of the violence implicit in our visualizing practices' (Donna Haraway in Fine et al., 2000, 108) Some of the essential characteristics of good governance are:...

Delivering effective diversity management through effective structures.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Members of organizations are likely to be creative and innovative when they consider themselves to be fairly treated and listened to. Diversity in the workplace gives rise to multiple perspectives that result in questioning of...

A critical systems perspective on the design of organizational space.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Organizations do not only use their building to sit dry and comfortable, but in many cases they actively seek to structure the work, improve the performance, and express their corporate identity through architectural design....

Seeds of engagement: design conversations for educational change.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION In creating change and designing a new system, communication amongst those involved is the primary vehicle. The character of this communication, the direction it flows, the inclusiveness, will each leave its imprint on the...

Motivating biomorphic constructions based on complex systems science.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION When Snow (1959) wrote his 'The two cultures and the scientific revolution' at the end of the fifties, he received mixed reactions. For some his work was too ideologically loaded, and too specific for the situation in the UK....

Why has feedback systems thinking struggled to influence strategy and policy formulation: a comment.(Notes and Insights)
January 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION This note attempts to dissipate the ambiguity that Warren (2004) associates to feedback and its effects. To this end, it describes the main differences between models with and without feedback, illustrating the types of...

In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology: Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Systems.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology: Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Systems. Edited by Sytse Strijbos and Andrew Basden. Published by Springer Science and Business Media, Inc., New York, 2006, 310 pp., ISBN:...

Uncertainty and Information: Foundations of Generalized Information Theory.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Uncertainty and Information: Foundations of Generalized Information Theory. By George J. Klir. Published by Wiley, 2005, 500 pp., ISBN: 0-471-74867-6, 53.15 [pounds sterling]. The Issue George Klir presents a comprehensive synopsis of...