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...