Systemic Business Community

The program for ISSS Tokyo 2007 has scheduled three 90-minute sessions for the Special Integration Group on Systems Applications in Business and Industry:

• Session 1 will be held on Thursday, August 9, 09:00 to 10:30;
• Session 2 will be on the same day, 14:30 to 16:00; and
• Session 3 will be held on Friday, August 10, 09:00 to 10:30.

These sessions are to be held in room W932.

As described in the Tokyo 2007 Calls for Papers, online discussion is encouraged in advance of the conference (and possibly even after the conference has long since passed).

In the third session of the SIG on Systems Applications in Business and Industry at Tokyo 2007, three papers are scheduled:

• Teresa A. Daniel “Worlds Apart: a Focus on the “Great Divide” Within the HRM Scholar- Practitioner Community”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract and PDF versions, and on the CDROM as paper #104;
• Jae Eon Yu, “Exploring Ethical Management From Systemic Perspectives”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract and PDF versions; and on the CDROM as paper #60; and
• Elena Beauchamp-Akatova, “Counter-Intuitive Managerial Interventions in Complex Systems”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract and PDF versions, and on the CDROM as paper #22.

In the second session of the SIG on Systems Applications in Business and Industry at Tokyo 2007, three papers are scheduled:

• K. C. Wang, “A Process View of SWOT Analysis”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract and PlDF versions, and on the CDROM as paper #26;
• Michael G. Norton, “Japan’s Eco-towns – Industrial Clusters or Local Innovation Systems?”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract and PDF versions; and on the CDROM as paper #657; and
• Takafumi Nakamura and Kyoichi Kijima, “Systems of System Failures: Meta System Methodology to Prevent System Failures”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings as Abstract and PDF versions, and on the CDROM as paper #684.

In the first session of the SIG on Systems Applications in Business and Industry at Tokyo 2007, three papers are scheduled:

• Pamela Buckle and G. Keith Henning, “Intervening in Counterproductive Self-Organized Dynamics in the Workplace”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings with an Abstract; and on the CDROM as paper #21;
• Hisanori Terasawa and Toshizumi Ohta, “A Model of Demand Chain Management with Virtual Interactions”, on the JournalsISSS Proceedings with an Abstract and PDF versions, and on the CDROM as paper #494;