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Management is identical with problem-solving in sociotechnical systems which are characterized by their inherent complexity, uncertainty and self-regulation. In order to cope with these features in the context of individual firms, industrial complexes or even whole human societies, methodologies are needed to guide the manager, economist or politician in his efforts to control the system for which he is responsible. Control in this context can only mean organic control, using the inner dynamics of the system to perform those problem-solving interventions which generate a desired systems behavior. A methodology based on such a concept of organic control results when the framework and the tools of systems theory and cybernetics are combined with evolutionary procedures of tackling real-world problems to form an overall problem resolution strategy.
This paper was prepared when the author was a visiting scholar at the School of Advanced Technology, SUNY at Binghamton, N.Y. on the basis of a Swiss National Science Foundation Grant.
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Gomez, P. (1978). Systems-Methodology in Management: An Adaptive Procedure for Organic Problem-Solving. In: Klir, G.J. (eds) Applied General Systems Research. NATO Conference Series, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0555-3_53
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