Urban system theory seeks to comprehensively capture the complexity of cities. Digital twin cities are "digital mirror images" or symbionts of physical cities, and thus, they form a complex adaptive system. Unlike the reductionist practice of urban informatization and digitalization, digital...

The paper revisits the fundamental question of the nature of the firm by contrasting two philosophic worldviews suggested by process philosophy and the Luhmannian systems theory. Whereas the former worldview takes reality to be internally related, the latter ones underscores the tendency of...

Führung ist weder richtig noch falsch, sie ist wirksam oder unwirksam – so einer der Grundgedanken Systemischer Führung. Die Art der Führung stellt im Allgemeinen einen wichtigen Faktor für die Gesundheit der Geführten dar. Die Persönlichkeit der Geführten wiederum determiniert sowohl...

The effectiveness of control measures against the diffusion of the COVID-19 pandemic is grounded on the assumption that people are prepared and disposed to cooperate. From a strategic decision point of view, cooperation is the unreachable strategy of the Prisoner's Dilemma game, where the...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) becomes one of the prerequisites for success of contemporary organizations aimed at humankind’s survival by sustainable development. As SR behavior can generate significant benefits, more and more organizations are developing SR strategic plans and...

The study applied systems thinking to review capital power-infrastructure investment in SA, particularly in Eskom. The study employed mixed method, with 97 engineers, seven in executive positions participated in qualitative and 90 in quantitative. The study found knowledge management and...

The aim of this paper is to lay out a novel analytical perspective for project governance. Applying two elementary concepts of Luhmann's organisation theory, distinction and autopoiesis, as well as Luhmann's decision-making model offers a deeper comprehension of the project, which renders a...

This work applies systems theory and tools to build a flexible framework for sustainable tourism in Portugal due to the Covid-19 impacts. The objectives are (1) to explore the cause-effect relationships between and among the variables involved; (2) to develop a causal loop diagram that resumes the...

Der vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert ein (Simulations-) Modell zur Erklärung des Verhaltens von Organisationen. Der Modellentwurf basiert auf einem funktionalistischen Ansatz. Danach kann eine Organisation nur überleben, wenn es ihr gelingt, den Systemanforderungen, die sich auf Organisationen...

In a recent contribution to this journal, Deng et al. (2021) draw on an extensive range of theoretical and empirical literature to make the case for the tendency of social capital resources of agricultural cooperatives in the Western world to decline over time. The present paper revisits this...

There is no term that better describes the essential features of human society than complexity. On various levels, from the decision-making processes of individuals, through to the interactions between individuals leading to the spontaneous formation of groups and social hierarchies, up to the...

There seems to be divergent views on the relationship between corporate governance andorganizational performance. These views seem to be inconsistent and inconclusive according tosome researchers. Why are the views not convincing? What are the possible causes of theinconsistency? Reviewing...

The widespread adoption of software-intensive IT systems in ships has brought huge benefits, yet it also has offered new avenues for malicious cyberattacks to potentially disrupt shipping operations. It follows that a focus on the security and resilience properties of IT-enabled ship systems...

The paper presents the issue of international trade in art from system theory perspective, that is, viewed as a system functioning in an environment. In this approach, countries have been treated as components of system, with relationships of diverse character existing between them, e.g....

In this reflection, this paper seeks to highlight the interconnectedness of Bertalanfyy's (1950) General System Theory to Open Systems Theory (Fu & Kirk, 199). In doing this, I define and explain the General System Theory conceptualized by Ludwig von Bertalanfyy in the 1950s and its...

The purpose of this research is to understand how social capabilities and infrastructural enablers support technical capabilities for product development by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as a response to COVDI19, and to examine the above relationships between those using conventional...

This paper argues that the Covid-19 Pandemic is not merely a Health issue, but a much wider, highly complex, very dangerous phenomenon that requires a multi-disciplinary approach to tackle and needs taking a ‘big picture’ perspective, here using a ‘Systems Thinking’ approach.First, the...

Chapter 1. Introduction and Theoretical Foundation -- Chapter 2. A Theoretical Approximation to Artificial Intelligence as an Autopoietic System -- Chapter 3. Conceptualisation of the Relational Governance of Artificial Intelligence -- Chapter 4: Contextualisation of Relational AI Governance in...

This paper elaborates on how design rules emerge and evolve as firms' micro-level choices of product and organization architectures coevolve with changes in product markets and an industry's competitive and cooperative dynamics. We suggest that the design rules a firm adopts will vary according...

Klappentext: Betriebe sind das Erfahrungsobjekt der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung. So eindeutig und geradezu trivial diese Aussage klingt, so diffus erscheinen die Antworten auf die Frage, was denn nun eigentlich einen "Betrieb" von einem "Nicht-Betrieb" unterscheidet. Die Autoren...