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The changing organisation: an agency modelling approach

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  • Maurice Yolles
  • Gerhard Fink

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Agency theory explores autonomous systems which have the capacity to develop their own patterns of behaviour and to change that behaviour, too. Change of an agency emerges from the immanent dynamics of its own internal processes, and as responsive change from interaction with other agencies in its environment. In this paper, we deal with the cybernetic foundations of agency theory and generic system hierarchies into which agencies are nested. The modelling exercise begins with the instrumental agency, and is stepwise extended into higher cybernetic orders: the cognitive-affective agency, the defining socio-cultural agency, and finally to superstructure modelling. Agency dynamics is explored through elaboration on internal (immanent) dynamics which may consequently lead to paradigm change.

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  • Maurice Yolles & Gerhard Fink, 2015. "The changing organisation: an agency modelling approach," International Journal of Markets and Business Systems, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 1(3), pages 217-243.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmabs:v:1:y:2015:i:3:p:217-243
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