Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from September 2004

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from September 2004

Guest editorial.(Editorial)
September 1, 2004... The 47th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) selected as its theme Conscious Evolution of Humanity: Using Systems Thinking to Construct Agoras of the Global Village. This theme was chosen to focus...

Wisdom of the people.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION People all over the world aspire to participative democracy, and yet the democratic planning and design of any social system, from cities to national health care programs, is threatened by the inability to engage stakeholders...

Indigeneity, an alternative worldview: four R's (Relationship, Responsibility, Reciprocity, Redistribution) vs. two P's (Power and Profit). Sharing the journey towards conscious evolution.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION I want to thank President Aleco Christakis for his kind invitation to submit a paper to this issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science. It is a pleasure, with the scholarly assistance of my colleague of twenty years,...

Indigenous wisdom of the people forum: strategies for expanding a Web of transnational indigenous interactions.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2004... Laura Harris, President of Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO), and one of the facilitators of the Indigenous Wisdom of the People Forum (WOPF) held at the 47th ISSS Conference, discusses why Indigenous people participated in the conference,...

What can cybernetics contribute to the conscious evolution of organizations and society?(Research Paper)
September 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION The title of this contribution establishes a link between the motto of this conference and my personal work. My endeavour in research and education is to make the systems approach fertile for organizations and society. I am...

A dialogue on the future of ISSS: Team Syntegrity sessions at the Crete conference.(Research Paper)(International Society for the System Sciences)
September 1, 2004... CONTEXT The 47th Conference of the International Society for the System Sciences (ISSS) in Crete was guided by the idea of 'using systems thinking to construct agoras of the global village' (subtitle of the conference) with respect to the...

Constructing Agoras of the Global Village: a Co-laboratory of Democracy on the Conscious Evolution of Humanity.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION The 47th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), which was held in Crete between 6 and 11 July 2003, addressed the issue of the Conscious Evolution of Humanity: Using Systems Thinking to...

Latin American agoras.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... This is a joint article, by two authors. But in reality it is authored by many more. As early as mid 2002, as soon as the 'agora' theme for the 2003 annual meeting was known, a group of systemists from Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Argentina began...

Some free interpretations of the results given in the dynamics of the Latin American Group.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2004... ANTECEDENTS During the evolution of the ISSS International Conference of 2003 there was a group of Latin-American colleagues that engaged in reflecting on 'the participation of the common citizen in the design, implementation, follow-up...

A free interpretation of the results given in the dynamics of the Latin American Group.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2004... AN INTRODUCTION BORROWED FROM OTHER DISCIPLINES Time and again I found a significant difference between 'a good idea' and 'a practical system' where that idea finds its application. One such example is the notion of 'zero base budget'....

Toward a grounded theory of sustainability in social service organizations: a systems point of view.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION In the spring of 1999, professionals from education, law enforcement, and mental health joined with other concerned citizens in communities across the United States to create comprehensive plans to improve the lives of their...

Preliminary information: the 49th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the System Sciences.(Announcement: ISSS 2005)
September 1, 2004... Advisory Committee-Program Len Troncale, Reinaldo Trevino, G.A. Swanson., Carl Slawski, Markus Schwaninger, Jennifer Wilby, Charles Francois, Sylvia Brown, Ken Bausch Mexican Support Committee--Chair: Kathia Laszlo International...