Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society offers a sound introduction to Stafford Beer-s Viable System Model (VSM) and clarifies its relevance to support organisational sustainability and self-governance. While the VSM has been known since the early 1980s, it hasn-t been always easy to understand and to apply. It explains the self-transformation methodology to analyse the way organisations manage (or not) their complexity and govern themselves.
The work is supported by multiple examples of application in organisations of all scales - from small to multi-national corporations and from organised social networks to communities and national organisations. It clarifies the relevance of Beer-s theory to support systemic learning and change in organisations, and to coach them to self-organise and self-govern.
Readers interested in further understanding insights from complex systems and cybernetics theories for designing and transforming organisation
