The 21st European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR) took place in Vienna from April 10 to April 13, 2012.
The book with the abstracts of the papers presented to this meeting can be downloaded from: http://www.emcsr.net/book-of-abstracts/
The following papers were delivered in the Symposium “Design and Self-organization in the Emergence of Effective Organizations”, which was organised by WOSC:
Session 1: Paper Presentation
Chair: Raúl Espejo
- Markus Schwaninger: Towards Optimal Organizational Designs, The Fractal Dimension of Self-organizing Systems
- Hans Losscher: Leadership and Chaos Theory
Session 2: Paper Presentation
Chair: Markus Schwaninger
- Penny Hart: Using an interpretivist methodology to investigate knowledge sharing in a research establishment
- Tom Ryan: Working ‘Cybernetically’ at Organizational (Re)design
Session 3: Paper Presentation
Chair: José Perez Rios
- Louis Klein: Narrative Approaches to Organizational Research, Exploring the organisational collage of memetic paradigms
- Helmut Nechansky: Problems of Organizational Cybernetics,beyond Beer’s Viable Systems Model
- Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek: Supporting Civil Society’s Self-Organisation
Session 4: Paper Presentation
Chair: Tom Ryan
- José Perez Rios & Xosé Lois Martínez Suárez: An Organizational Cybernetics approach to University Urban Planning
- José Bermeo: Designing an effective conversation in an organization
- Raúl Espejo & David Hooper: Variety Engineering and the Re-structuring of the English National Health Service