... System Model (“VSM”), Stafford Beer's systemic methodology for enterprise management (Beer, 1985; Jenkinson, 2022). It thereby contrasts farming models and their ways of seeing. Design/methodology/approach The interdisciplinary methodology synthesizes insights from five domains: epistemology...

...Raquel Marta Purpose Conceptually anchored in Morin’s complexity paradigm, this study aims to address the knowledge construction process in social work. It introduces epistemologically interactive social work and proposes poetic epistemological turbulence – a transdisciplinary framework comprising...

... the project within the highly transdisciplinary research landscape of the period, which is argued to be significantly due to the constructivist epistemology widely adopted across disciplines. Design/methodology/approach The paper mainly benefits from methods of architectural history, specifically archival...

...Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi Purpose Based on the reception of the principle of self-organization, the core of Heinz von Foerster's operational theories, I hypothesize how Heinz von Foerster's theory can be an orientation model for the epistemological problem of complexity. I have chosen this study...

... Organizational structures Ecology Biology Complexity Epistemology In the creature, all is names, maps, and relation names- but still the name of the name is not the name, and the name of the relation is not the relation- even when the relation between A and B is of the kind, we denote B by saying...

.... The previously proposed object-semantic interpretation of information became the basis for substantiating the concept of information-supported nature of bio- and anthropogenic systems and the corresponding epistemological category is naturally called system information. The key element of the definition...

...Pedro Jácome de Moura Jr; Cecília Lauritzen Jácome Campos Purpose This paper aims to build around an abductive argument: the epistemological value of the Arts-derived knowledge is equivalent and may be supplementary to that of science, contributing to the literature on the epistemological mistrust...

... intellectual constituency within the systems epistemology, differentiating it from traditional “Systems [ 13 ]”. However, many of these publications had one thing in common and this was that they related to the development of a practical tool, namely, SSM. An examination of the literature of the time reflected...

... effect upon our “appreciation”. But, in the final analysis, our personal understanding of a situation will always relate to our experience of our world and one that is constantly changing. Action research Complexity Phenomenology Epistemology Systems theory Systemic thinking...

... be addressed. Design Cybernetics Narratives Exploration Epistemology Named after the Greek term for “steersmanship” (Wiener, 1950 , p. 15), the field of cybernetics became widely known as the science of goal-oriented control after its emergence in the late 1940s. Besides its role...

... Brün’s formulations for designing social change and transformations. Cybernetics Second-order cybernetics Language Epistemology Social change Herbert Brün Composing, whenever I wish to speak of the composer’s activity and the traces left by it. - Brün (2004a) Judith Lombardi can...

...Philip Baron Philip Baron can be contacted at: pbaron@uj.ac.za There is a lack of epistemological considerations in religious studies methodologies, which have resulted in an on-going critique in this field. In addressing this critique, the researcher’s observer effect needs to be actively...

... to the structure (the organizing expectations) of the system. It is not identical with the system though, but any model can tell something about the structure of an observing system. Cybernetics Social systems Second-order cybernetics Modelling Complexity Epistemology The purpose of the article...

... Emergence Epistemology Many facts from the long history of cybernetics demonstrate its relevance to political thought, theory and practice, as well as one of its central notions – the problem of political power. The link between cybernetic and political bodies of knowledge is traceable to the early...

... can be contacted at: Lepsky@tm-net.ru © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Cybernetics Methodology Philosophy Epistemology Social systems Self-organization Sociocybernetics Second-order cybernetics Here is a scheme...

... regarding the chosen concept of designing and learning from the perspective of a constitutive epistemology. These were investigated as circularities and as distinctions in language. The variety of intended meanings and hence implicit entailments was examined from the perspective of implicit domains...

...Fulvio Mazzocchi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to refine the conceptual framework of complexity. For such a purpose, a number of epistemologically oriented remarks are provided, arguing about the relevance of second-order considerations for complexity and the importance...

... that it makes more sense to speak of the cybernetics of epistemology than the epistemology of cybernetics, the author argues that cybernetics is not one form of practice amongst others but an account of what it is to practice, understood as where we relate how we act to how we understand so that each informs...

... Publishing Limited 2014 Information systems Philosophy Identity Complexity Information Mathematical modelling Epistemology Ontology State of a system Discussions about information begin from, and frequently end with the deceptive question “What is information?” The large...

... and Bunge, 1997 ; Godfrey-Smith, 2000), and in response to such criticisms philosophers of biology have further refined this concept and investigated its epistemological foundations. Proponents of the teleosemantic approach (Sterelny et al., 1996 ; Maynard Smith, 2000 ; Jablonka, 2002...