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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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MECHANIZATION (Excessive) 1)4)

D. KATZ and R.L. KAHN made the following comments (on human organizations, but of general interest for any strongly integrated system): "The typical models in organizational theorizing concentrate upon principles of internal functioning as if these problems were independent of changes in the environment…" (1966, p.100).

Such a limitation could also result of a too restrictive interpretation of the more recent concept of organizational closure.

The same authors add: "Moves toward tighter integration and coordination are made to insure stability, when flexibility may be the more important requirement. Moreover, coordination and control become ends in themselves rather than means to an end" (p.101).

These last comments are obviously relative to human organizations. It is however noteworthy that this tendency toward rigidity, here a result of a voluntarism unconscious of its own nature, can altogether be observed in biological ageing and in psychological disorders. It is possibly a result of variety exhaustion due to constraints increase resulting from continued readaptations to environmental variations and, more deeply to the unavoidable final entropization of any system.

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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