TY  - BOOK
AU  - Espinosa Salazar,Angela Ma
TI  - Sustainable self-governance in businesses and society: the viable system model in action 
T2  - Systems thinking
SN  - 9780429490835
AV  - HD30.213 
U1  - 658.4/038011 23/eng/20221107
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Management information systems
KW  - Industrial organization
KW  - Organizational behavior
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Information Management
N2  - "Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society offers a sound introduction to Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM),and clarifies its relevance to support organisational sustainability and self-governance. While the VSM has been known since the early 1980s, it hasn't been always easy to understand and to apply. It explains the Self-Transformation Methodology to analyse the way organisations manage (or not) their complexity and govern themselves. The work is supported by multiple examples of application in organisations of all scales - from small to multi-national corporations, and from organised social networks to communities and national organisations. It clarifies the relevance of Beer's theory to support systemic learning and change in organisations, and to coach them to self-organise and self-govern. Readers interested in further understanding insights from complex systems and cybernetics theories for designing and transforming organisations will benefit from this book, as it works to offer very detailed insights on how to put the VSM theory into practice. It clarifies how it improves adaptive capabilities, agile and self-regulated structures, more capable of fully implementing corporate sustainability strategies and self-governing themselves. The chapters provide key reading for managers, consultants, practitioners, and post-graduate students working in organisational transformation, governance, and sustainability"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429490835
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -