[Editor's note: This prospecus was amended on July 9, 2003, to reflect a closer actuality to the session.]
The SABI Stream for Crete has been partitioned into four 90-minute sessions, on the evenings of July 7, 2003 and Tuesday, July 7. Here is the spirit proposed in advance of the conference (originally posted to the ISSS Webboard in November 2002).
The Special Integration Group on Systems Applications in Business and Industry has a tradition, started by former chair Enrique Herrscher, of NOT presenting papers at the annual meeting. Papers were contributed by members of the ISSS interested in various diverse topics, centered on business. These ideas were then grouped into discussion topics, where papers with similar interests were compared and contrasted. The core discussion was centered among the authors who contributed papers, and then opened up to attendees at large.
For the Crete conference, I would like to propose a slightly different structure, based on some learning. I would prefer to focus the discussion on certain topics in advance, rather than letting the structure just emerge. This has the potential to promote some discussion in advance of the conference, as well as influencing individual's ideas about papers that they might submit to the conference.
Some straw man topics were suggested as guidelines. After reviewing the abstracts, the following four discussion themes are now proposed for discussion in Crete:
Authors have been clustered into these four groups, and will be invited to speak about the larger issues from the perspective of their papers. Other SIG members are encouraged to join in the discussion, as are ISSS members at large. The dialogue will be digitally recorded, and digested onto web pages sometime after the conference.
To contrast the orientation of a Special Integration Group, as compared to a Special Interest Group, revisiting the Introduction to ISSS Special Integration Groups on the ISSS web site was suggested.
Theme: It's been said that "everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it". These three papers will lead to commentary on the ability business people to influence "right" social directions. Do the "old" social structures still work (or did they ever work)?
| Publication Date | Publication Title | Author(s) | Form |
| July 2003 | Right Choices in a Complex World
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Gary METCALF | submitted paper 03-026 |
| July 2003 | Governance and the Practice of Management in Long-Term Inter-Organizational Relations
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David ING, David HAWK, Ian SIMMONDS and Marianne KOSITS | late paper |
| July 2003 | The Succession of Mentor Role and Experience of Protoges among Japanese Workers [click here for the Acrobat document] |
ONO Koichi and KATO Kyoko | submitted paper 03-053 |
Theme: We're now at the 47th annual meeting of the ISSS, so systems science is hardly new. From a business context, have we really learned anything, or has systems science frozen in time? The two papers will lead us towards a discussion of whether this really anything new in systems science for business, either in theory or in practice.
| Publication Date | Publication Title | Author(s) | Form |
| July 2003 | Applying Systems Thinking to the Transition from Product Manufacturers into Service Providers
{paper not provided here, as the author did not attend the session in Crete} |
Heiko GEBAUER | submitted paper 03-035 |
| July 2003 | More than just Piers: A Multi-Agent Systems Approach to Defining Organisation in a Seaport Terminal Management System {paper not provided here, as the author did not attend the session in Crete} |
Lawrence E. HENESEY | submitted paper 03-056 |
Theme: Businesses, as social systems, undergo change both in deliberate and emergent modes. How much influence do we really have in collective social groups such as businesses? These three papers will lead us on a dialogue of whether human beings in social groups can really influence their directions in organizations.
| Publication Date | Publication Title | Author(s) | Form |
| July 2003 | Mutual Development of Techologies and Governance: Reliance on Systemic Coincidence, Natural Luck or Strategic Planning?
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Annaleena PARHANKANGAS and David HAWK | submitted paper 03-012 |
| July 2003 | Job Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction of Female Graduates of a Japanese University [click here for the Acrobat document] |
SEKIGUCHI Kazuyo and KATO Kyoko | submitted paper 03-054 |
| July 2003 | The Firm as a Self-Reproducing System [click here for the Acrobat document] |
Pavel O. LUKSHA | submitted paper 03-069 |
Theme: One of the heritage foundations of within the systems science community is inquiring systems. How should a social group collectively "know" which paths it should take? These three papers will lead to a discussion of how business organizations know, and the validity of that knowing.
| Publication Date | Publication Title | Author(s) | Form |
| July 2003 | Anticipating Organizational Competences for Development through the Disclosing of Ignorance
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David ING, Minna TAKALA and Ian SIMMONDS | late paper |
| July 2003 | A Test on Metasynthesis System Approach for Running the Forecasting of the Growth Rate of GDP in China
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GU Jifa and TANG Xijin | submitted paper 03-093 |
| July 2003 | The Use of Systemic Methodologies in Workflow Management Systems [click here for the Acrobat document] |
Nikitas A. ASSIMAKOPOULOS and Apostolos E. LYDAKIS | submitted paper 03-067 |
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