Purpose: We address the 'economics/cross-cultural management interface,' showing that bi-polar value perceptions fit into an agency model of an economy. Design: Modern views of economic processes have moved away from the traditional view of closed systems, with a tendency to cite them as open...

Agency theory explores autonomous systems which have the capacity to develop their own patterns of behaviour and to change that behaviour, too. Change of an agency emerges from the immanent dynamics of its own internal processes, and as responsive change from interaction with other agencies in...

Purpose: Anticipating behaviour and responding to the needs of complexity and the problematic issues that they generate occurs through modelling processes. This paper discusses generic modelling for living systems theory, and shows how higher cybernetic orders model can be generated through...

Agency theory explores autonomous systems which have the capacity to develop their own patterns of behaviour and to change that behaviour, too. Change of an agency emerges from the immanent dynamics of its own internal processes, and as responsive change from interaction with other agencies in...

Purpose – While emotions and feelings arise in the singular personality, they may also develop a normative dimensionality in a plural agency. The authors identify the cybernetic systemic principles of how emotions might be normatively regulated and affect plural agency performance. The purpose...