TY - GEN
T1 - Entropy and emergence in organizations under a turbulent environment
AU - Peon-Escalante, I.
AU - Tejeida, R.
AU - Badillo, I.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - System science, studies important systems processes, among of them are elements in the life cycle of organizational systems: entropy and emergence. Entropy, a thermodynamics concept, has become a part of the systems language. It indicates the degree of system disorganization. Entropy can be conceptualized as the progressive loss of the relationships that integrate a system. Collapse is violent and sudden, disgregation of systems structures and processes that occur under turbulent conditions. This process can be modeled with the life cycle metaphor of organizations, which include four stages: birth (design), growth (improvement), maturation (maintenance), and death (obsolescence). The gradual stages of improvement and maintenance occur under stable conditions and the sudden stages of design and obsolescence, occur under turbulent environmental conditions. When organizations systems operate near state of equilibrium stability prevails through an homeostatic process of change. Organizations under turbulent conditions suffer an entropic process, loose their heterogeneity and suffer collapse of their structures and processes. When organizational systems are far from an equilibrium state, they can collapse, or new complex systems may develop with emergent properties. In a strategic planning process, the conditions a system collapse can be visualized to design preventive measures. This paper includes a comparative systemic analysis of the conditions of risk and vulnerability in Japan and Mexico.
AB - System science, studies important systems processes, among of them are elements in the life cycle of organizational systems: entropy and emergence. Entropy, a thermodynamics concept, has become a part of the systems language. It indicates the degree of system disorganization. Entropy can be conceptualized as the progressive loss of the relationships that integrate a system. Collapse is violent and sudden, disgregation of systems structures and processes that occur under turbulent conditions. This process can be modeled with the life cycle metaphor of organizations, which include four stages: birth (design), growth (improvement), maturation (maintenance), and death (obsolescence). The gradual stages of improvement and maintenance occur under stable conditions and the sudden stages of design and obsolescence, occur under turbulent environmental conditions. When organizations systems operate near state of equilibrium stability prevails through an homeostatic process of change. Organizations under turbulent conditions suffer an entropic process, loose their heterogeneity and suffer collapse of their structures and processes. When organizational systems are far from an equilibrium state, they can collapse, or new complex systems may develop with emergent properties. In a strategic planning process, the conditions a system collapse can be visualized to design preventive measures. This paper includes a comparative systemic analysis of the conditions of risk and vulnerability in Japan and Mexico.
KW - Collapse
KW - Cycle of life
KW - Emergence
KW - Entropic
KW - Homeostatic and morphogenetic equilibrium
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M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:84865786033
SN - 9781605600437
T3 - International Society for the Systems Sciences - 51st Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, ISSS 2007
SP - 643
EP - 657
BT - International Society for the Systems Sciences - 51st Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, ISSS 2007
T2 - 51st Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, ISSS 2007
Y2 - 5 August 2007 through 10 August 2007
ER -