From Manufacture to Mindfacture

A Relational Viable Systems Theory

Leonardo Lavanderos author Kenneth Massey author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Idea Group,U.S.

Published:31st Dec '14

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From Manufacture to Mindfacture cover

One of the most powerful tools available to an organization is its ability to create, maintain, and share knowledge and information vital to the success of the organization.

From Manufacture to Mindfacture: A Relational Viable Systems Theory explores the concept of the organizational structure through the lens of the viable systems approach. Focusing particularly on human interaction and collaboration within a business setting, this research-based publication is ideally designed for use by business managers, social theorists, upper-level students, and researchers.

Topics Covered

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Cybernetics
  • Human Capital
  • Intellectual Capital
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Science
  • Organizational Development
  • Relational Viability
  • Value Creation

Lavanderos and Massey make explicit some concepts and tools they have been using for a number of years to bring about changes in the structure and processes that support the organization of organizations, assuming many of the epistemological questions proper to the theoretical framework in which they have placed themselves. The book exhibits more an approach to work than the development of the theory focused on relationships, they say, because addressing these concepts merits a text on its own. Among their topics are from hierarchical structure to relational networks, mind value processes, the strategic intelligence process, new thinking for an emergent networked world, and the sound of the spiral."" – ProtoView Book Abstracts (formerly Book News, Inc.)

ISBN: 9781466673694

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 633g

308 pages