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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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STAKEHOLDER 1)4)

"Any individual, group, organization, institution that can affect as well as be affected by an individual's, group's, organization's, or institution's policy or policies" (I.I. MITROFF and H.A. LINSTONE, 1993, p.141).

The authors comment: "The bigger, the more complex the problem, the more it is likely to involve a wider array of stakeholders" (p.141).

In a very general way, issues, problems and situations are considered within a quite restricted ring of stakeholders. This leads to quite negative consequences:

- the matter under consideration is insufficiently described and understood (underconceptualization)

- decisions are made or plans established which do not take in account some important aspects

- As a result, they may lead to new problems, or even the resurgence of the same ones

- Stakeholders who were not called to participate and feel harmed or simply do not understand the way matters are managed, become diffident or even hostile, do not lend their collaboration and possibly will sabotage.

Identification of the stakeholders is thus a previous and very important step in any design, planning or decision making process (see hereafter).

A most important characteristic of stakeholders is that they have assumptions about the problem, in many cases implicit and unconscious, or at least not overtly declared. It is necessary to make these assumptions appear clearly.

MITROFF and LINSTONE show how to establish maps of stakeholders assumptions, in a qualitative and quantitative way (p.144).

J. WARFIELD'S works.

Categories

  • 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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