...José Pérez Ríos; Xosé Lois Martínez Suárez; Iván Velasco Jiménez Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an example of the application of a framework, based on Beer's organizational cybernetics and viable system model, that allowed the top management of a public university to design...

... characterise British higher education. Design/methodology/approach The contents of Ashby's 1956 book, An Introduction to Cybernetics, are outlined. Cybernetic concepts, principles, and laws are then applied to some of the features that presently characterise UK universities: growth in student...

.... The virtual university journal is maintained by an organisation called the Internet Research and Development Centre, of which details can be found at http://www.irdc.com/ . It is a commercial setup which claims to "provide the complete Internet solution to organisations looking to establish a 'community...

... certain items, and that it also benefited from tourism. A link from the Internet university site has the intriguing label of Northwest passage. It leads first to a rather enigmatic picture showing sea creatures, probably dolphins, and what seems to be a dome-shaped edifice, and from an acknowledgement...