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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING 2)4)

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K. BAUSCH describes organizational learning as follows: "A process of developing organizational capacity and human capability to articulate and continually examine the purposes, underlying perspectives and assumptions, and individual and organizational values in view of

a) the performance of the organization

b) the changing characteristics and expectations of the environments in which the organization is embedded"(Glossary, Pers. comm., 2002)

This is in fact the program of the "Evolutionary Learning Community"(ELC)

The following aspects seem most important:

- the nature and conditions of learning (general and specific) should be deeply researched

- a thorough critical examination of all assumptions and values should be undertaken and periodically repeated in order to avoid underconceptualization

- purposes should be examined in a similar fashion

- the aim is not to find recipes, nor solutions. It is to create evolutive design

- the designers should avoid clanthink, be aware of possible blindspots, escape from "politically correct" rules and develop creativity.

→ Design (Systemic approach to); Design (Generic); Design methodology (Systemic); Group technique (Nominal); Interpretive structural modelling; Organization

Categories

  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]

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