Tribute to Stafford Beer

Tribute to Stafford Beer / Raul Espejo.

This paper explores the history of Stafford Beer's work in management cybernetics, from his early conception and simulation of an adaptive automatic factory and associated experimentation in biological computing, through the development of the Viable System Model and the Team Syntegrity techniq...

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Main Author: Espejo, Raul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bradford, West Yorkshire, England : Emerald Group Pub., 2004.
Series:Kybernetes ; v. 33, no. 3/4.
Subjects:
Cybernetics.
Systems engineering.
cybernetics.
systems engineering.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Organizational Behavior.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management.
Cybernetics
Systems engineering
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Summary:This paper explores the history of Stafford Beer's work in management cybernetics, from his early conception and simulation of an adaptive automatic factory and associated experimentation in biological computing, through the development of the Viable System Model and the Team Syntegrity technique for discussion and planning. It also pursues Beer into the fields of micro- and macropolitics and spirituality. The aim is to show that all of Beer's projects can be understood as specific instantiations and workings out of a cybernetic ontology of unknowability and becoming: a stance that recognises.
Physical Description:1 online resource (374 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:0861769406
9780861769407
184544390X
9781845443900
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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