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THE VIABLE SYSTEMS MODEL AND INTER-ORGANIZATIONS Viveca Asproth Mid Sweden University. Critical situations caused by flooding. VHS. List of approved. Form for application. Applicatio n. Univer- sities. CSN. Decision. Registra- tion. Payment. Payment s. Information repayments.
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THE VIABLE SYSTEMS MODEL AND INTER-ORGANIZATIONS Viveca Asproth Mid Sweden University
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Collaboration among small and medium sized companies in a local area
Challenges of virtual team membership • - Creating effective team leadership • - Managing conflict and global virtual teams dynamics • - Developing trust and relationships • - Understanding cross-cultural differences • Developing intercultural communication competence • Zakaria 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
Spiral Management for Multiple organizationsK. Obata and H. Shiizuka (2003)
Viable Systems Model and Inter-organizations? VSM is applicable for single organizations VSM is recursive VSM can be used on society level But Can VSB be used for interorganizations?
Factors that have to be dealt with: Flexibility: independent organizations Stability: coordination for resolving conflicts (system 2) Efficiency: The meta-system will look at the whole system Assimakopoulus and Dimitriou (2006)
VSM and inter-organizations 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.