Contextual Analysis – a Multiperspective Inquiry into Emergence of Complex Socio-cultural Systems

Peter Bednar

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Sammanfattning

This paper explores the concept of organizations as complex human activity systems, through the perspectives of alternative systemic models. The impact of alternative models on perception of individual and organizational emergence is highlighted. Using information systems development as an example of management activity, individual and collective sense-making and learning processes are discussed. Their roles in relation to information systems concepts are examined. The main locus of the paper is on individual emergence in the context of organizational systems. A case is made for the importance of attending to individual uniqueness and contextual dependency when carrying out organizational analyses, e.g. information systems analysis. One particular method for contextual inquiry, the framework for Strategic Systemic Thinking, is then introduced, The framework supports stakeholders to own and control their own analyses. This approach provides a vehicle through which multiple levels of contextual dependencies can be explored and allows for individual emergence to develop.
Originalspråkengelska
Titel på värdpublikationProcesses Of Emergence Of Systems And Systemic Properties: Towards a General Theory of Emergence, Proceedings - WORLS279346
RedaktörerGianfranco Minati, Mario Abram, Eliano Pessa
FörlagWorld Scientific Publishing
Sidor299-312
Antal sidor13
ISBN (tryckt)978-981-279-346-1, 981-279-346-1
StatusPublished - 2009
EvenemangAIRS2007: 4th National Conference of the Italian-Systems-Society - Castel Ivano, Italien
Varaktighet: 2007 okt. 182007 okt. 20

Konferens

KonferensAIRS2007: 4th National Conference of the Italian-Systems-Society
Land/TerritoriumItalien
OrtCastel Ivano
Period2007/10/182007/10/20

Ämnesklassifikation (UKÄ)

  • Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning

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