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Organisations as social systems: the search for a systemic theory of organisational innovation processes

Jon‐Arild Johannessen (Bodø Graduate School of Business, Lillehammer College and Agder Research Foundation, Norway)

Kybernetes

ISSN: 0368-492X

Article publication date: 1 June 1998

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Attempts to develop a conceptual model for analysing organisations as social systems from a systemic point of view. Develops aspects of a general theory for organisational innovation. Deliberates the way in which systemic thinking can be used as a means to understand, explain and predict stability and innovation in organisations regarded as social systems. Uses social autopoiesis theory expressed through an analytical model, conceptual models, and propositions.

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Johannessen, J. (1998), "Organisations as social systems: the search for a systemic theory of organisational innovation processes", Kybernetes, Vol. 27 No. 4, pp. 359-387. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684929810219404

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