... Publishing Limited 2013 Managers Organizational structures Change management Adaptability Action research Viable System Model Personal VSM Systems thinking Collaborative inquiry The research was undertaken as a short project (T847, 2011) towards a Masters in Systems Thinking (MSc...

... adaptability and having generalized quantification nature, both being structure analysis and having workable procedure. As described in the first part of this article, when broad‐spectrum analysis wants to solve the contradiction between non‐proceduralization and proceduralization of philosophic method...

...Monika Silvia Broecker; Georg Ivanovas; Georg Ivanovas; Vlassis Tomaras; Vasiliki Papadioti; Nikolaos Paritsis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to ask what role robustness plays in current medicine and in how far medical practices influence human robustness and thus the ability to be adapted...

...Monika Silvia Broecker; Georg Ivanovas; Gregory Bateson Purpose This piece seeks to reflect upon the nature of adaptation and our usage of it with relation to design, addiction, and final cause. Design/methodology/approach This previously unpublished document was found amongst the manuscript...

... hand a set of quantities easily determinable from available data, and on the other hand a set of indicators intuitively connected with social system states. We relate the system social free energy and levels of organisation and adaptation. From these measures we derive the measure of social system...