Co-evolution Path Model: How Enterprises as Complex Systems Should Survive on the Edge of Chaos?
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Bernus, Peter
Nielsen, Sue
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In this theoretical paper, we introduce and describe a model, and demonstrate its origins from the disciplines of Enterprise Architecture, cybernetics and systems theory. We use cybernetic thinking to develop a 'Co-evolution Path Model' that describes how enterprises as complex systems co-evolve with their complex environments. The model re-interprets Stafford Beer's Viable System Model, and also uses the theorem of the 'good regulator' of Conant and Ashby, exemplifying how various complexity management theories could be synthesised into a cybernetic theory of Enterprise Architecture, using concepts from the generalisation of EA frameworks.
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Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems
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© 2012 Australasian Association for Information Systems. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the conference's website for access to the definitive, published version.
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Information systems philosophy, research methods and theory