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Issue title: Chaos and Self-Organization in Companies
Guest editors: Arno L. GoudsmitGuest Editor
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Watts, D.L.
Affiliations: Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Abstract: Self-organization is frequently used more for purposes of prescription in the management field than to support analytical insights. Terms have changed such as organizational learning in place of organizational change; but it remains questionable whether our empirical understanding of this phenomenon has been altered. In the following discussion, cognitive, structural, and political barriers will be examined in terms of behaviors which appear to inhibit organizational learning. It will be argued that these ‘sources of deception’ are in fact, built into the design of organizations. We do observe however, organizations which revise their strategies and reorient policies. Illustrations from a case study of the U.S. Peace Corps of the 1960's, will provide the basis for examining internal redundancies and competitive behavior and their potential to support conditions of self-organization.
DOI: 10.3233/HSM-1990-9405
Journal: Human Systems Management, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 239-248, 1990
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