A Symposium at the
European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems
Research
Vienna, Austria, April 2-5, 2002
List of Papers:
Self-Transformation, a New Approach to Development
V. Pozdniakov, Voronezh State University, Russia
Social Learning through Process Improvement in Russia
T.A. Medvedeva, S.A. Umpleby, Siberian State University of Transport, Novosibirsk, Russia
Quality of Products and Organizational Culture
Vera Gouchtchina, Voronezh State University, Russia
Doing Business in Russia: Foreign Investors' Needs and
Expectations
Natalia Fedotova, Irkutsk State Academy of Economics, Russia
Evolving Innovation Proficiency with a Corporate Mind
Machiel Emmering, Nyenrode University, Breukelen, The Netherlands
Research Ethics in Action: Cybernetic, Praxiological, and
Systemic Perspectives in an Evaluation System
A. Collen, Saybrook Graduate School, CA, USA
Managing Complexity by Recursion
Bernd Schiemenz, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
Evolution of Methaphors of Organisation and Development of
Information Society
Czeslaw Mesjasz, Cracow University of Economics, Poland
Comparing Cultural Systems: Comparative Analysis of
Russian and American National Mentalities
N. Prokopishina, South-Russia State University of Technology, Novocherkassk, Russia
Should Knowledge in Management Science Be Organized as
Theories or as Methods?
Stuart A. Umpleby, The George Washington University, USA
Informal Systems Thinking or Systems Theory - The Case of
Ideas About Innovation in Slovenia
M. Mulej, Z. Zenko, V. Potocan, M. Pivka, D. Ursic, N. Mulej, University of Maribor,
Slovenia
Theories of Change as an Intellectual Technology: Toward a
Third Order Cybernetics
Oleksandr M. Melnychenko, Kherson State Technical University, Ukraine
Pictures
Oleksandr Melnychenko, Natasha Prokopishina, and Stuart Umpleby at the University of Vienna.
Oleksandr Melnychenko receives an award from conference chairman, Robert Trappl.