Synoptics, part VIII: application of the organisational model of synoptics with regard to companies, territorial compounds and functional compounds
by Herbert Rauch
International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy (IJFIP), Vol. 15, No. 4, 2021

Abstract: Companies, villages and healthcare systems are all social systems, which function via indirect interaction: that means person A reaches out to person C by some kind of communication via person B. This chain can become very large, a pyramid with up to 14 echelons are to be observed (e.g., the Catholic church, military apparatuses). In the case of companies - these interactions are still more or less happening within one hierarchical pyramid. In a village (smaller in size) or in cities (larger in size) there are even many such pyramid-like chains of communication [besides companies also bureaucracies and cultural organisations are to be found there; and these are all summoned under one overall decision-making agenda (e.g., the mayor and his administrators working under the top positions' responsibility)]. Communities of this kind are all summarised as goal-oriented or territorial compounds. There are also functional compounds, i.e., networks of smaller or larger topic-oriented organisations as, e.g., the health system in a state.

Online publication date: Mon, 08-Nov-2021

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