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Information transmission in viable systems

✍ Scribed by de Raadt, J. D. R.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
1011 KB
Volume
41
Category
Article
ISSN
0002-8231

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✦ Synopsis

This article examines the process of information transmission in adaptive, viable organizational systems. Beer's viable system model is used to explain a system's information requirement at each time of the adaptation process, the source of this information and the effect of information transmission on a system's cohesion. Four hypotheses are stated and tested empirically with data collected among insurance agents in Australia.

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