Systemic Business Community

Digests -- ISSS 2002
46th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the System Sciences at Shanghai, People's Republic of China, August 2-6, 2002.

[Saturday, August 3] | [Sunday, August 4] | [Monday, August 5]

Note: These digests do not reflect the entire conference program. They reflect only observations contributed by members of the Systemic Business Community and the ISSS. For more background on the ISSS 2002 conference, refer to the General Call for Papers at the ISSS site.

Saturday, August 3

Time Session Subject Speaker(s)
8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Plenary Opening Remarks
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Professor Wu Jie and Professor Michael C. Jackson, Co-chairs of the Conference
9:10 a.m. to 9:40 a.m. Plenary Systems Dialectics: The Development of a New World View
(presented through simultaneous translation)
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Professor WU Jie, President, Chinese Institution for System Sciences
9:40 a.m. to 10:10 a.m. Plenary Creative Holism: Systems Thinking for Managers
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
Professor Michael C. Jackson, Director, Hull University Business School, Hull, UK; and President, ISSS
10:40 a.m. to 11:20 p.m. Plenary Study on the Social Complexity
(presented through simultaneous translation)
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Professor CHENG Si-Wei, Director General, Department of Management Science, National Natural Science Foundation of China
11:20 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Plenary -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy Lecture Middle Human Science
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Professor John Warfield, Emeritus, George Washington University, USA
1:35 p.m. to 2:10 p.m. Plenary A Role for the Private Sector in the Right against Corruption
(unfortunately lost digest for session!)
Professor A. Roxana Cardenas, Monterrey Campus, ITESM, Mexico
2:10 p.m. to 2:40 p.m. Plenary Some Quantitative Analysis of MEI-Systems Theory
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Professor WANG Huan Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University
1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Plenary Managing Complexity and Change in Human Systems: The Contributions of Living Systems Theory and Social Entropy Theory
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Professor Kenneth Bailey, UCLA
3:10 p.m. to 3:35 p.m. Plenary The Economic Globalization and The Opening of the Enterprise Systems
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Jian GE, General Manager, Shiqu Group, Neimeng Province, China
4:05 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Plenary Systems Approach to Trans-Disciplinary Knowledge Exchange
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Professor Yoshiteru Nakamori, Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Kanazawa, Japan

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Sunday, August 4

Time Session Paper Author(s) Dialogue
8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Systems Applications in Business and Industry

Chair: David Ing
The Five Elements Theory in Business Research
<< paper 2002-045 >>
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Kuang-Cheng WANG, Doctoral Program, Graduate Institute of Business Administration, National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. Roundtable discussion
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Cartography of the Virtual Business
<< paper 2002-149 >>
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Kazimierz PERECHUDA, Wroclaw University of Economics, Institute of Organization and Management, Department of Strategy and Management Methods, Poland
Analysis of Corporate Governance Systems and Corporate Governance Information Systems,
<< paper 2002-095 >>
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LIN Runhui and LI Weian, International Business School, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Enabling Collective Knowledge Work through the Design of Mediating Spaces
<< paper 2002-186 >>
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David ING and Ian SIMMONDS, IBM Advanced Business Institute, Markham, Ontario, Canada; and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, U.S.A.
Technology Policy Process to Cope with the Complexity of Enterprise Technology Strategies,
<< paper 2002-008 >>
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Koichi HARUNA, Corporate Chief Engineer, R&D Group, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Systems Applications in Business and Industry

Chair: David Ing
Some Systemic Implications of Common Ownership: A Shift of the Business Perspective for the 21st Century?,
<< abstract only for 2002-082 >>
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Sylvia BROWN Roundtable discussion
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Performance of Measurement of Chinese Textile Industry in 1998
<< paper 2002-019 >>
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WANG Xinyu, ZHOU Min, ZHANG Jin, FENG Wenlong, School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China
Institutional Coordination Problem: An Obstruction to Promotion of Industrial Backward Linkage,,
<< paper 2002-093 >>
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Mohamad IMAN, Akiya NAGATA, School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa, Japan
Stability and Change in China: Movement towards a Free Market Economy,
<< paper 2002-040 >>
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Gary METCALF and Fengquan AN, President, InterConnections, LLC and Associate Director, Business Programs, United States Open University, Ashland, KY, U.S.A.; and Associate Professor, China Petrochemical Consulting Corporation, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China; P.R.C.
Time Session Paper Author(s)
1:45 p.m. to 2:40 p.m. Systems Practice

Chair: Peter Murray
What's So New About Complexity Theory?
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
Peter Murray
2:40 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Systems Dynamics Research on Complexity -- Jianguo JIA
[click herefor a digest by David Ing]
Jianguo JIA
4:00 p.m. to 5:40 p.m. Workshop

Chair: Zhichang Zhu
Systems Methodology East and West
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
[Summary by Cathal Bruga of Li, Kang & Li; Zhu; Li; Loeckenhoff; Bruga]

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Monday, August 5

Time Session Authors and Papers Dialogue
8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Evolutionary Learning Community (Roundtable)

Chairs: Alexander and Kathia Laszlo
Katia Laszlo, "The Knowledge, Learning and Society: an Evolutionary Perspective on the Role of Knowledge Management in a Changing World"

Isaias Padillo-Pina, "Planning of a Virtual Education System for a State-Owned Higher Education Institution"

Isaias Padillo-Pina: "Quality Measures of Evolutionary Changes in Systems"

Alexander Laszlo: "The Challenge of Technology Change for the Design of Evolutionary Learning Community"
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
Time Session Paper Author(s)
10:30 a.m. to 11:10 a.m. Critical Systems Theory and Practice

Chair: Mike Jackson
Critical Systems Thinking Applied to Rural Telecommications Infrastructure Planning
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
Theo Andrew
11:10 a.m. to 11:40 a.m. Critical Systems as a Way to Manage Knowledge
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
Fei GAO
12:05 p.m. to 12:25 p.m. Platforms for Critical Systems Practice: an Organization-based Action Research Project
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
Alvaro CARRIZOSA de la Torre
12:25 p.m. to 12:40 p.m. Teaching Critical Systemic Thinking and Practice by Means of Conceptual Tools
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
Janet McIntyre
1:30 p.m. to 1:50 p.m. Human Systems Inquiry

Chair: Arne Collen
Uncovering Systems Agency: A Case for Reading Patterns of Purposive Intent in Organizations
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
Pamela Buckle
1:50 p.m. to 2:10 p.m. The Design of Intellectual Movements
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
Stuart Umpleby
2:10 p.m. to 2:25 p.m. The Influence of Individual System View on Social Decision-Making
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
Kaori SHINOZAKI
2:25 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. The Evolutionary and Pluralistic Design Principles of the Social Systems in the Global Age
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
Akira TOKUYASU
2:45 p.m. to 3:10 p.m. Evolution of International Commerce in a Global Community
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
Jennifer HINMAN
3:10 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Political Authority in a Democratic Society: A Systems Perspective -- Hyo-chon Park, August 5, 2002
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
Hyo-chon PARK

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