Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from September 2008

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from September 2008

Guest editorial.(International Society for the Systems Sciences)(Editorial)
September 1, 2008... The 51st annual meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS 2007) marked the beginning of another half-century of interdisciplinary collaboration and synthesis of systems sciences. The basic purpose of systems sciences...

Boundary maintenance in living systems theory and social entropy theory.(Research Paper)(Report)
September 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION The boundary has special significance in systems theory as it, by definition, separates the system from its environment. In so doing, it effectively defines and operationalizes the system. The significance of the boundary for...

Living systems theory and an entity-systems approach.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION Living Systems Theory (LST) (Miller, 1978) provides a much more robust explanation of the process-structure of living systems than the earlier sense-response, action-reaction approach. By adopting an input-throughput-output...

Strategic development in higher education: a critical systems perspective.(Research Paper)(Report)
September 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION In this paper, it is argued that many of the reasons for strategic failure may be attributed to the successive dominance of different reductionist approaches. From a systems perspective, it may be argued that such approaches...

Creating and sustaining successful knowledge management in purposeful communities-summary of key experiences from pioneers.(Research Paper)(Report)
September 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION This paper is based on workshops and a number of interviews on community collaboration and IT support for communities together with the experience of the authors in the development of Microsoft's Solutions Sharing Network...

Managing innovation for service through systems concepts.(Research Paper)(Report)
September 1, 2008... INNOVATION ARCHITECTURE Innovation architecture (IA) is a knowledge management tool for innovation in a firm (Tschirky et al., 2003; Tschirky and Kijima, 2005; Fukunaga et al., 2006; Sauber and Tschirky, 2006). IA is conveniently used in...

Holistic formal analysis of dilemmas of negotiation.(Research Paper)(Report)
September 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION Negotiation constitutes a crucial part of our life as social human beings. We propose one position to the other party, and if accepted, the negotiation process will end in cooperation. However, if neither the other accepts our...

Integrating sustainability practices using the viable system model.(Research Paper)(Report)
September 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION Human civilization in the 20th century entered a period of crisis serious enough to endanger its survival. Two major related factors are responsible for this condition. They are: environmental degradation, epitomized although...

Induced coupling: an approach to modeling and managing complex human-landscape interactions.(Research Paper)(Report)
September 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION A new class of environmental problem has emerged that is far more complex than traditional ones. Population growth and overdevelopment are driving complex interactions between human systems and natural landscapes (e.g. Hooke,...

Searching for effective policies to prevent bird flu pandemic in Bandung City using agent-based simulation.(Research Paper)(Report)
September 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION The objective of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of incorporating social factors into a program to prevent a bird flu pandemic in Bandung City. First, we propose an infection model for bird flu using Spot...

Integrative system dynamics: analysis of policy options for tobacco control in New Zealand.(Research Paper)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION 'Tobacco smoking has long been known to be a major cause of death and ill health. Smoking is the main cause of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and is a primary risk factor for cardiovascular disease,...

News.(27th International Conference of The System Dynamics Society)(Conference news)
September 1, 2008... Please use this section to publicize news such as announcements and updates of forthcoming events, follow-up reports on conferences, workshops, systems research/practice activities. Please send contributions to the following address. Dr...