System Archetype to Understand Unintended Behavior in Indian Shrimp Industry and to Aid in Strategy Development

Autor: Santosh Kumar Prusty, C. K. Mukherjee, Pratap K.J. Mohapatra
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Systemic Practice and Action Research. 27:397-416
ISSN: 1573-9295
1094-429X
DOI: 10.1007/s11213-013-9288-6
Popis: The Indian Shrimp Industry has exhibited an interesting phenomenon of fast growth in the early nineties (1990–1994), decline in the mid-nineties (1995–1997), and slow revival in the recent years (1997–2009). The cyclic behavior of the Industry, though, was much discussed in the literature, but no explanation regarding such behavior was explicitly discussed in the literature. The strategies following such behavior were mostly ad-hoc and symptomatic in nature. In this paper, we have analyzed the Industry’s past behavior using a systems approach and have developed the structure of the Industry in the form of a system archetype, which explained the cyclic behavior of the Industry. The system archetypical structure of the Industry was made keeping the existing system archetypes as the foundation. The system archetype developed here is generic enough to explain any growth-decline-revival behavior of an industry or organization. The archetype of Indian Shrimp Industry also helped us in designing sustainable strategies for the Industry that included controlling over-expansion in a shrimp farming zone and controlling pollution generation by each shrimp farm.
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