Co-Evolution Path Model (CePM): Sustaining Enterprises as Complex Systems on the Edge of Chaos
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Kandjani, Hadi
Tavana, Madjid
Bernus, Peter
Nielsen, Sue
Year published
2014
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The purpose of this study is primarily theoretical-to propose and detail a model for system evolution and show its derivation from the fields of enterprise architecture (EA), cybernetics, and systems theory. Cybernetic thinking is used to develop the coevolution path model (CePM) to explain how enterprises coevolve with their environments. The model reinterprets Ashby's law of requisite variety, Stafford Beer's viable system model, and Conant and Ashby's theorem of the ''good regulator'' to exemplify how various complexity management theories could be synthesized into a cybernetic theory of EA-informingmanagement ofmechanisms ...
View more >The purpose of this study is primarily theoretical-to propose and detail a model for system evolution and show its derivation from the fields of enterprise architecture (EA), cybernetics, and systems theory. Cybernetic thinking is used to develop the coevolution path model (CePM) to explain how enterprises coevolve with their environments. The model reinterprets Ashby's law of requisite variety, Stafford Beer's viable system model, and Conant and Ashby's theorem of the ''good regulator'' to exemplify how various complexity management theories could be synthesized into a cybernetic theory of EA-informingmanagement ofmechanisms to maintain harmony between the evolution of the enterprise as a complex system and the evolution of its complex environment.
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View more >The purpose of this study is primarily theoretical-to propose and detail a model for system evolution and show its derivation from the fields of enterprise architecture (EA), cybernetics, and systems theory. Cybernetic thinking is used to develop the coevolution path model (CePM) to explain how enterprises coevolve with their environments. The model reinterprets Ashby's law of requisite variety, Stafford Beer's viable system model, and Conant and Ashby's theorem of the ''good regulator'' to exemplify how various complexity management theories could be synthesized into a cybernetic theory of EA-informingmanagement ofmechanisms to maintain harmony between the evolution of the enterprise as a complex system and the evolution of its complex environment.
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Journal Title
Cybernetics and Systems
Volume
45
Issue
7
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© 2014 Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Cybernetics and Systems, Vol. 45(7), pp. 547-567, 2014. Cybernetics and Systems is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com with the open URL of your article.
Subject
Information systems organisation and management
Cognitive and computational psychology