Management and Organizational Change

Czeslaw Mesjasz, Cracow University of Economics, PolandA Symposium at the
European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research
Vienna, Austria, April 2-5, 2002

Vienna, Austria

List of Papers:

Self-Transformation, a New Approach to Development
V. Pozdniakov, Voronezh State University, Russia

Social Learning through Process Improvement in Russia
T.A. Medvedeva, S.A. Umpleby, Siberian State University of Transport, Novosibirsk, Russia

Quality of Products and Organizational Culture
Vera Gouchtchina, Voronezh State University, Russia

Doing Business in Russia- Foreign Investors’ Needs and Expectation
Natalia Fedotova, Irkutsk State Academy of Economics, Russia

Evolving Innovation Proficiency with a Corporate Mind
Machiel Emmering, Nyenrode University, Breukelen, The Netherlands

Research Ethics in Action- Cybernetic, Praxiological, and Systemic Perspectives in an Evaluation System
A. Collen, Saybrook Graduate School, CA, USA

Managing Complexity by Recursion
Bernd Schiemenz, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

Evolution of Metaphors of Organisation and Development of Information Society
Czeslaw Mesjasz, Cracow University of Economics, Poland

Comparing Cultural Systems- Comparative Analysis of Russian and American National Mentalities
N. Prokopishina, South-Russia State University of Technology, Novocherkassk, Russia

Should Knowledge of Management Be Organized as Theories or as Methods?
Stuart A. Umpleby, The George Washington University, USA

Informal Systems Thinking or Systems Theory – The Case of Ideas About Innovation in Slovenia
M. Mulej, Z. Zenko, V. Potocan, M. Pivka, D. Ursic, N. Mulej, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Theories of Change as an Intellectual Technology- Toward a Third Order Cybernetics
Oleksandr M. Melnychenko, Kherson State Technical University, Ukraine


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