Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from January 2010

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from January 2010

Editorial.(Editorial)
January 1, 2010... We start this new volume with a range of papers that are highly topical, addressing such issues as the meaning of success, corporate social responsibility, auditing and governance and the management of complex systems. In an increasingly...

Redefining success: designing systemic sustainable strategies.(Research Paper)(Report)
January 1, 2010... REDEFINING SUCCESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY Modern societies have been extremely successful in applying the industrial model of production to create unprecedented progress manifest in increasing opportunities for human development and well-being....

Corporate social responsibility and requisite holism--supported by tradable permits.(Research Paper)(Report)
January 1, 2010... INTRODUCTION Systems Research and Behavioural Science (Cordoba and Campbell, 2008b) provides information, that systemic thinking supports Corporate Social Responsibility (SR). Before this, another edition of it was devoted to ethics, paving...

Auditing in organizations: a theoretical concept and empirical evidence.(Research Article)(Report)
January 1, 2010... The existence of modern governments and proper society cannot be contemplated without the operation of professional, public, external and internal auditing systems (Geist, 1981, p. 3). From the perspective of office management theory,...

Adaptive networks as second order governance systems.(Research Paper)(Report)
January 1, 2010... INTRODUCTION Seemingly competing values, like economic growth and sustainability, may appear impossible to both drive our development. Discourses driven by values that clearly are not implementable through acceptable and visible short-term...

Fractal behaviour of complex systems.(Research Paper)(Report)
January 1, 2010... INTRODUCTION One of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of modern research is the quantitative study of complexity (Balankin, 1991; Chorin and Wright, 1999). Complexity has had a specially important impact in the fields of physics,...

A systems science approach to enterprise resources planning systems.(Research Paper)(Report)
January 1, 2010... INTRODUCTION Administration of manufacturing systems is the science, art and profession to lead such systems from a state of development to a different and better state of development. The processes of improving manufacturing systems are well...

The relationship between: Miller's living systems theory and Beer's viable systems theory.(Research Paper)(Report)
January 1, 2010... INTRODUCTION The question if a living system according to Miller's living systems theory is a viable system according to Beer's viable systems theory, and vice versa, haunts systems scientists since three decades: It has not been resolved...

Book reviews editorial.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Evolution's Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of our World. By Graeme Taylor. Published by New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, 2008, 308 pp., ISBN: 978-086571-608-7, USS 24.95. Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to...