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Metasystem Transitions and Sustainability in Human Organizations. Part 2 - A Heuristics for Global Sustainability

In: Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development

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  • Graziano Terenzi

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    AIRS)

Abstract

This two-paper series deals with the problem of understanding the relations between viability and sustainability in the context of social metasystem transitions occurring in a global environment. In PART 1 of the series, the subject of Organizational Synergetics has been introduced, and an integration to Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model has been proposed. PART 2 argues that the identification of emergents and their relationships is not only necessary to improve organization’s viability but also to assess organization’s sustainability. The distinction is made, then, between local sustainability and global sustainability. Whereas the former is amenable to a standard computational treatment, the latter, it is argued, is an undecidable property of the global system comprising both the system in focus and its global environment. In force of its undecidable and holonic character, global sustainability can only be attained by resorting to suitable heuristics designed to guide global evolution. Finally, a strategy and a general heuristics, which is based on the concept of a Viable Holonic Network, are proposed.

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  • Graziano Terenzi, 2006. "Metasystem Transitions and Sustainability in Human Organizations. Part 2 - A Heuristics for Global Sustainability," Springer Books, in: Gianfranco Minati & Eliano Pessa & Mario Abram (ed.), Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development, pages 601-612, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-0-387-28898-7_42
    DOI: 10.1007/0-387-28898-8_42
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