Kybernetes: Volume 48 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Federico Barnabé, Ilaria Perissi

Governance through political bureaucracy: an agency approach

Maurice Yolles

Smart governance ultimately relates to the ability of political administrations to elicit trust and public confidence. Political administrations normally generate rational…

Governance for intelligent organizations: a cybernetic contribution

Markus Schwaninger

This paper aims to revisit the viable system model (VSM) discussing it from both the theoretical and the empirical standpoints, and ascertaining its relevance for organizational…

Improving managers’ intelligence through Systems Thinking

Piero Mella, Patrizia Gazzola

Accepting the assumption that our intelligence depends on the ability to construct models which may allow us to acquire, update and transmit our knowledge, this paper aims to…

Mechanisms of meme propagation in the mediasphere: a system dynamics model

Ilaria Perissi, Sara Falsini, Ugo Bardi

In the age of internet memes spread around the world in very short time, it has been already proved that, in several cases, the mechanism of propagation is very similar to a flu…

Smart technologies as social innovation and complex social issues of the Z generation

Vasja Roblek, Maja Mesko, Vlado Dimovski, Judita Peterlin

This paper aims to present how contemporary students are self-organizing using smart technologies (ST) and the future social implications of ST. The research model is based on the…

Towards a systems thinking based view for the governance of a smart city’s ecosystem: A bridge to link Smart Technologies and Big Data

Francesco Caputo, Leonard Walletzky, Petr Štepánek

This paper aims to investigate the role of Smart Technologies and Big Data as relevant dimensions in affecting the emerging social and economic dynamics of society with the aim to…

Analysis of crowd stampede risk mechanism: A systems thinking perspective

Xie Kefan, Yu Song, Sishi Liu, Jia Liu

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the crowd stampede risk mechanism from the perspective of systems thinking.

Water used to be infinite: a Brazilian tale of climate change

Joaquim Rocha dos Santos, Eduardo Ferreira Franco, Hamilton Coimbra Carvalho, Stefano Armenia, Alessandro Pompei, Carlo Maria Medaglia

The purpose of this study is to analyze the impacts of different policies to address the water supply crisis experienced by the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo during 2013 to…

A systemic methodology for the reduction of water consumption in rural areas

María Paula Flórez, María Catalina Ramírez, Luisa Fernanda Payán-Durán, Mauricio Peralta, Andres Esteban Acero Lopez

This study aims to present a systemic methodological proposal for the reduction of water consumption in rural areas, based on participatory tools.

Sustainable development goals – an analysis of outcomes

Omar Sacilotto Donaires, Luciana Oranges Cezarino, Adriana Cristina Ferreira Caldana, Lara Liboni

The concept of sustainability evokes a multiplicity of meanings, depending on the field. Some authors have criticized the concept for its vagueness. Notwithstanding this…

Integrated simulation for national development planning

Matteo Pedercini, Holger Maximilian Kleemann, Nombuso Dlamini, Vangile Dlamini, Birgit Kopainsky

The purpose of this papers is to highlight the applicability of integrated simulation models for national development planning to different issues and contexts. Specifically, the…