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Design and Diagnosis for Sustainable Organizations

The Viable System Method

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Authors:
  1. José Pérez Ríos

    1. Universidad del Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

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  • Find out if your organization is prepared to survive

  • Learn in a short time how to diagnose the health of your company

  • Find out why your organization does not meet your expectations

  • Why many firms and organizations are unable to survive the current systemic crisis

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Systems Thinking, Organisational Cybernetics and the Viable System Model

    • José Pérez Ríos
    Pages 1-64

  3. Diagnosis and Design of Organisations

    • José Pérez Ríos
    Pages 65-139

  4. Pathologies of Organisations

    • José Pérez Ríos
    Pages 141-170

  5. The Software for Applying the VSM: VSMod®

    • José Pérez Ríos
    Pages 171-200

  6. Team Syntegrity

    • José Pérez Ríos
    Pages 201-216

  7. Looking to the Future

    • José Pérez Ríos
    Pages 217-219

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 221-250
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About this book

How can organizations and their managers face the tremendous complexity of the current environment? How can their compliance with the requirements of sustainability be evaluated? And how can new organizations be structured to ensure their viability? This book addresses these questions in a very practical way, essentially combining systems theory with cybernetics to help managers to evaluate and shape organizations by making accessible the wealth of knowledge contained in these fields. Importantly, it also provides guidelines for its practical application.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Universidad del Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

    José Pérez Ríos

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Design and Diagnosis for Sustainable Organizations

  • Book Subtitle: The Viable System Method

  • Authors: José Pérez Ríos

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22318-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-22317-4Published: 13 January 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43707-6Published: 23 February 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-22318-1Published: 11 January 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 250

  • Topics: Organization, Business and Management, general

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