| Popis: |
Viability theory and PSI (Performance in Social Interaction) theory are scientific theories constructed within the context of empirical science. The former is a systemic theory mostly concerned with coupling components and focuses on input-output modeling. It copes with a huge variety of businesses by providing a generic model called the Viable System Model (VSM) that holds for any kind of them. However, this is a double-edged sword, in fact, in order to provide invariances that fit with any kind of business, the VSM does not highlight how to bring about those invariances. The latter focuses on the essence of the operation of a business and supports its engineering and transformation. It provides a deep analysis of the business process structure with a human centric view, and supports the information system development; however, it does not tell much about the business survival in a turbulent environment. Both theories share the same universe of discourse, with different coverage and limits. They provide complementary but completely different views of the same business. The consideration of each theory aside is reductionism thinking. In order to consider systematically both theories, we propose the Viable System Ontology Theory, which is an interrelation between the Viability theory and PSI theory inspired by Bunge Systemic Classification; it supports the business processes design of a viable system. |
