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Identity and Structural Archetypes

In: Organizational Systems

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  • Raul Espejo

    (Syncho Ltd.)

  • Alfonso Reyes

    (Universidad de Ibague)

Abstract

This chapter uses the VSM to understand and observe how people in organizations manage their own complexity as they strive to maintain stability in a chaotic environment. The VSM offers strategies to manage complexity at the least cost to people and organizations. People manage organizational complexity intuitively and of course in the process they make more or less costly mistakes. The aim of this chapter is increasing our ability to observe and diagnose shortcomings in this management. It offers practical support to diagnose common communication failures. These failures tend to be archetypical in the sense that they are recurrent observations made in many organizations. The value of archetypes is facilitating the diagnosis of identity and structural problems. From a methodological perspective they highlight the shortcomings of the organizational systems in which people experience performative situations or difficulties in implementing change.

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  • Raul Espejo & Alfonso Reyes, 2011. "Identity and Structural Archetypes," Springer Books, in: Organizational Systems, chapter 0, pages 233-255, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-19109-1_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19109-1_12
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