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Contextual Analysis – a Multiperspective Inquiry into Emergence of Complex Socio-cultural Systems

In English

Författare

  • Peter Bednar

Redaktör

  • Gianfranco Minati
  • Mario Abram
  • Eliano Pessa

Summary, in English

This paper explores the concept of organizations as complex human activity systems, through the perspectives of alternative systemic models. The impact of alternative models on perception of individual and organizational emergence is highlighted. Using information systems development as an example of management activity, individual and collective sense-making and learning processes are discussed. Their roles in relation to information systems concepts are examined. The main locus of the paper is on individual emergence in the context of organizational systems. A case is made for the importance of attending to individual uniqueness and contextual dependency when carrying out organizational analyses, e.g. information systems analysis. One particular method for contextual inquiry, the framework for Strategic Systemic Thinking, is then introduced, The framework supports stakeholders to own and control their own analyses. This approach provides a vehicle through which multiple levels of contextual dependencies can be explored and allows for individual emergence to develop.

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

299-312

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Processes Of Emergence Of Systems And Systemic Properties: Towards a General Theory of Emergence, Proceedings - WORLS279346

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Förlag

World Scientific Publishing

Ämne

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Nyckelord

  • strategic systemic thinking
  • contextual dependency
  • contextual analysis
  • individual emergence

Conference name

AIRS2007: 4th National Conference of the Italian-Systems-Society

Conference date

2007-10-18 - 2007-10-20

Conference place

Castel Ivano, Italy

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-981-279-346-1
  • ISBN: 981-279-346-1