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Yolles, Maurice I.


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  • [2018]  Governance Through Political Bureaucracy: an agency approach. Kybernetes, 28, 2018, 1 (Yolles, Maurice / Fink, Gerhard)
  • [2015]  The Changing Organisation: an agency modelling approach. International Journal of Markets and Business Systems, 1, 2015, 3, pp. 217-243 (Yolles, Maurice / Fink, Gerhard)
  • [2015]  A General Theory of Generic Modelling and Paradigm Shifts (part 1): the fundamentals. Kybernetes, 44, 2015, 2, pp. 283-298 (Yolles, Maurice / Fink, Gerhard)
  • [2014]  Personality, Pathology and Mindsets. Kybernetes, 2014 (Yolles, Maurice / Fink, Gerhard)
  • [2013]  Exploring Mindset Agency Theory. Social Science Research Network, 2013 [text] (Yolles, Maurice / Fink, Gerhard)
  • [2012]  Personality, Pathology and Sagiv-Schwartz Mindscapes. Social Science Research Network, 2012 [abstract] (Yolles, Maurice / Fink, Gerhard)
  • [2011]  Understanding Organizational Fitness: the case of China. Information Age Publishing, 2011 (Yolles, Maurice / Guo, Kaijun)
  • [2011]  Organisations as emergent normative personalities. Kybernetes, 40, 2011, 5/6, pp.635-669 [abstract] (Yolles, Maurice / Fink, Gerhard / Dauber, Daniel)
  • [2010]  Organisation Theory and the Normative Personality Proposed for Kybernetes, June 2010 (Yolles, Maurice / Fink, Gerhard / Dauber, Daniel)
  • [2010]  Knowledge Cybernetics: a metaphor for post-normal science. In: Steve Wallis (Ed.)., Cybernetics and Systems Theory in Management: Tools, Views and Advancements, IGI Global, Hershey, 2010
  • [2010]  Cybernetics of Tao. Kybernetes, 39, 2010, 4, pp. 527 - 552 (Ye, Zude / Yolles, Maurice)
  • [2009]  Understanding Corruption and Sociopathology. Journal of Organizational Change, 2009
  • [2009]  Migrating Personality Theories: towards a theory of the balanced personality?. Kybernetes, 2009 (Yolles, Maurice / Fink, Gerhard)
  • [2009]  A Social Psychological basis of Corruption and Sociopathology. Journal of Change Management, 22, 2009, 6. pp. 692-73
  • [2008]  Toward a formal theory of socioculture: a yin-yang information-based theory of social change. Kybernetes, 37, 2008, 7, pp. 850 - 909 (Yolles, Maurice / Frieden, B. R. / Kemp, G.)
  • [2008]  The Cybernetics of Taoist System Thinking. 2008 (Zude, Ye / Yolles, Maurice)
  • [2008]  A Social Psychological basis of Corruption and Sociopathology. In: De Luca, N., (Ed.)., Economic Corruption: Detection, Costs and Prevention, Nova Science, 2008
  • [2007]  The Social Psychology of Collectives, and their Pathologies, XIV Congress of International Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy, Computational Intelligence Applied to NewDigital Economy and Business Ecosystems, 2007
  • [2007]  Modelling Pathologies in Social Collectives. European Journal of International Management, 1, 2007, 1/2, pp. 81-103.
  • [2007]  Exploring Cultures through Knowledge Cybernetics, Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management 5 (2007) pp. 19-74 [abstract]
  • [2006]  The Knowledge Cybernetics of Culture: the case of China. International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Sciences, 3, 4, December 2006 [text] (Yolles, Maurice / Iles, Paul)
  • [2006]  pdf">Knowledge Cybernetics: a new metaphor for social collectives, Intellect, 3, 2006, 1
  • [2006]  Organizations as Complex Systems: an introduction to knowledge cybernetics. Information Age Publishing, 2006
  • [2006]  Organisations as Complex Systems: an introduction to knowledge cybernetics. Information Age Publishing, Inc, 2006
  • [2006]  Knowledge Cybernetics: a metaphor for post-normal science, 2006 [text]
  • [2006]  From Knowledge Cybernetics to Feng Shui. Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the ISSS, 2006 (Zude, Ye / Yolles, Maurice)
  • [2005]  Taoist Viable Systems. International Society for the Systems Sciences Conference, 2005 (Yolles, Maurice / Ye, Zude)
  • [2005]  Revisiting the Political Cybernetics of Organisations. Kybernetes, 34(5/6), 2005
  • [2005]  Oriental Viable Systems and Feng Shui. 2005 (Zude, Ye / Yolles, Maurice)
  • [2005]  Knowledge Cybernetics: a new metaphor for social collectives (Paper to 11th ANZSYS Conference / Managing the Complex, 2005)
  • [2004]  Implications for Beer's ontological system/metasystem dichotomy. Kybernetes, 33, 2004, 3, pp. 726-764
  • [2003]  The Political Cybernetics of Organisations. Kybernetes, 23(9/10), 2003, pp. 1253-1282
  • [2003]  Paradigmatic Metamorphosis and Organisational Development. System Research and Behavior Science, 20, 2003, 177-199. [text] (Yolles, Maurice / Guo, Kaijun)
  • [2002]  Holistic Viable System Theory. IssS, Shanghai, 2002. (Ye, Zude / Yolles, Maurice)
  • [2001]  Viable Boundary Critique. Journal of Operational Research Society, 51, 2001, pp. 1-12
  • [2000]  Viable Learning Systems. Interactive Learning Environments, 7, 2000, X, pp. 1-21
  • [2000]  From Viable Systems to Surfing the Organisation. Journal of Applied Systems, 1, 2000, 1, pp. 127-142
  • [1999]  Management Systems: a viable approach. Financial Times Pitman, 1999
  • [1998]  Changing Paradigms in Operational Research. Cybernetics and Systems, 29, 1998, 2, pp. 91-112
  • [0000]  Autopoiesis and Its Efficacy: a metacybernetic view. Systems, 9, 2021, 4. [text] (Yolles, Maurice / Frieden, B. R.)
  • [0000]  A Configurationn Approach to Mindset Agency Theory: a formative trait psychology with affect, cognition and behaviour. Cambridge University Press, 2021 (Yolles, Maurice / Fink, Gerhard)

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