THE VIABLE SYSTEMS MODEL AND INTER-ORGANIZATIONS

Viveca AsprothMid Sweden University

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Collaboration among small and medium sized companies in a local area

- Creating effective team leadership- Managing conflict and global virtual teams dynamics- Developing trust and relationships- Understanding cross-cultural differences- Developing intercultural communication competenceZakaria et al. (2004)

Challenges of virtual team membership

-Creating effective team leadership ?

Organizational learning- Managing conflict and global virtual teams dynamics- Developing trust and relationships- Understanding cross-cultural differences- Developing intercultural communication competence

Challenges of virtual team membership

Spiral Management for Multiple organizationsK. Obata and H. Shiizuka (2003)

VSM is applicable for single organizationsVSM is recursive VSM can be used on society level

But Can VSB be used for interorganizations?

Viable Systems Model and Inter-organizations?

Flexibility: independent organizationsStability: coordination for resolving conflicts (system 2)Efficiency: The meta-system will look at the whole systemAssimakopoulus and Dimitriou (2006)

Factors that have to be dealt with:

The question of how to organize the systems 3-5 and how they will be able to deal with the problems still remains to be elaborated.

VSM and inter-organizations