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1986, Head of the Department 1987-1992, Dean of the Faculty 1997-2006, Co-ordinator of the Doctorate in Business Research
(See my biography page for more information).
Publications:
| Organizations and Orgonizations: The Holonic View of Organizations | |||
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This short theoretical essay, after discussing the original meaning of holon and holarchy, will examine in what sense the holonic view can be extended to organizations. |
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| Selfish Orgonic Networks: The Holonic Viewpoint of Productive Networks | |||
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I examine productive networks following the holonic viewpoint (“orgon” indicates a production or-ganization viewed as a holon). I have identified 10 “rules of selfish behavior” and three laws of networks. |
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| Combinatory Systems and Automata: Simulating Self-Organization and Chaos in Collective Phenomena | |||
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I aim to present two ideas – Combinatory System and Combinatory Automaton – to describe and simulate collective phenomena produced by Combinatory Systems. |
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| Observing Collectivities: The Combinatory Systems Approach in Social Sciences | |||
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This study aims to present the original Theory of Combinatory Systems which is able to interpret and explain many collective phenomena – accumulation, diffusion, order – and their observable effects. |
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| The Origin of Value Based Management: Five Interpretative Models of an Unavoidable Evolution | |||
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This paper seeks to identify the factors external and internal to growing firms that make it necessary, in fact, inevitable, to introduce Value Based Management as a normal management approach. |
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| Systems Thinking: The Art of Understanding the Dynamics of Systems | |||
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I believe that the logical structure of Systems Thinking can be summarized in five fundamental rules the systems thinker must follow at all times. |
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| Description, Definition, Denomination and Explanation: The Bases of the Knowledge Process | |||
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A simple formal symbology is proposed to represent the basic elements of knowledge as a succession of acts entailing distinction, description, definition and recognition. |
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| “Seeing the Impossible” or “The Impossibility of Seeing”: Five Obstacles to Systems Thinking | |||
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By using brief metaphors I want to touch on five conditions behind the “impossibility of seeing” that obstruct our systemic thinking with regard to understanding and predicting our world. |
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| Managing Business Value-creating Organizations | |||
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This study aims to present a coherent framework regarding the formal logic of value production in, or through, organizations. |
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| Organizations are Control Systems | |||
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This theoretical study holds that organizations-firms “are” Control Systems that can survive “only if” their management can achieve the vital objectives set by the stakeholers. |
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