This paper extends an epistemologically grounded biological theory of organization and knowledge based on Karl Popper's evolutionary epistemology and three worlds ontology, amalgamating concepts from evolutionary biology, emergence and hierarchy theory, autopoiesis, and military affairs. We...

In this article, the adaptative and learning processes are analysed in point of view of both the biologist and the engineer, using as much as possible the same terms. The psychological approach is a synthetic and critical one, the emphasis being laid on the specific mechanisms of each level of...

The article shows that the repartition of the maximum entropy is the uniform repartition and contains the highest disorder degree which means the highest quantity of information in potential status. Entropy which measures the disorder is not opposite to the Quantity of Information (the dimension...

This paper presents a biological view of knowledge and organizations formulated to provide a framework for understanding organizational knowledge and organizational knowledge management systems. This framework extends ideas based Karl Popper's (1972) epistemology of objective knowledge; Maturana...

Change management is the process of developing a planned approach to change in an organization. Typically the objective is to maximize the collective benefits for all people involved in the change and minimize the risk of failure of implementing the change. The discipline of change management...

This paper investigates an attempt to combine different simulation tools in order to build a simulation environment that can be used to model complex system behaviour. The component tools used in the project are: the four phase method, a simulation world view derived from the three phase...

A collection of multiple articles on psychology with topics ranging from psycho cybernetics to psychological profiling, all of which have been selected for the 2017 edition of The International Conference 'Education and Creativity for a Knowledge-Based Society' - Psychology

A collection of multiple articles on psychology with topics ranging from trauma development to mindfulness, all of which have been selected for the 2019 edition of The International Conference 'Education and Creativity for a Knowledge-Based Society' - Psychology

The science of organizations studies relationships emphasized by structural-quantitative research methods suggested or represented in a model that is a formal and literal representation of the real context. Informational modeling does not study organizations as they are, but as they become, as...