This paper extends an epistemologically grounded biological theory of organization and knowledge based on Karl Popper's evolutionary epistemology and three worlds ontology, amalgamating concepts from evolutionary biology, emergence and hierarchy theory, autopoiesis, and military affairs. We...

In this article, the adaptative and learning processes are analysed in point of view of both the biologist and the engineer, using as much as possible the same terms. The psychological approach is a synthetic and critical one, the emphasis being laid on the specific mechanisms of each level of...

The article shows that the repartition of the maximum entropy is the uniform repartition and contains the highest disorder degree which means the highest quantity of information in potential status. Entropy which measures the disorder is not opposite to the Quantity of Information (the dimension...

This paper presents a biological view of knowledge and organizations formulated to provide a framework for understanding organizational knowledge and organizational knowledge management systems. This framework extends ideas based Karl Popper's (1972) epistemology of objective knowledge; Maturana...

Change management is the process of developing a planned approach to change in an organization. Typically the objective is to maximize the collective benefits for all people involved in the change and minimize the risk of failure of implementing the change. The discipline of change management...

This paper investigates an attempt to combine different simulation tools in order to build a simulation environment that can be used to model complex system behaviour. The component tools used in the project are: the four phase method, a simulation world view derived from the three phase...

The science of organizations studies relationships emphasized by structural-quantitative research methods suggested or represented in a model that is a formal and literal representation of the real context. Informational modeling does not study organizations as they are, but as they become, as...

In a few years ago, neuroscientists and marketing met were pleasant and had with a child: neuromarketing. Which now grows in one year in three others. The Marketing departments can predict exactly what happens in the minds of consumers and how they react to market stimuli, the offers, prices and...

Organization modeling beginning with multilayered architecture and having the fundamental objective of functional decoupling of modules from different layers, could directly result in obtaining a sensitive augmentation in flexibility and scalability. New modules or services can be added; some can be...

The article shows that the repartition of the maximum entropy is the uniform repartition and contains the highest disorder degree which means the highest quantity of information in potential status. Entropy which measures the disorder is not opposite to the Quantity of Information (the dimension...