Download PDFOpen PDF in browserCan Process-Orientated Meta-Systemic Worldview and Practice Enable Systems Thinking/Dynamics to Better Assist in Navigating Edge of Chaos?EasyChair Preprint 1025516 pages•Date: May 24, 2023AbstractThe epistemological role of world views in informing organisational practice is reconsidered in evaluating the importance of systems thinking to create more sustainable systems in the evolving challenges of turbulent environments. Leadership’s admission that it struggles to engage effectively with exponentiating global challenges shows that it is ill-prepared to guide organisations in the complexity of an increasingly recognised ‘meta-crisis’. To navigate the anticipated ‘edge of chaos’ that both accompanies and enables deep systemic change, systems thinking/dynamics is evaluated from the ontological perspective for its potential contribution to enable practical application of ‘Reflexive Complex Adaptive Intelligence’. Shifting from the linear mechanistic reductionist, to the non-linear organismic holistic perspective, ought to access and enhance inherent capacities to engage with complexity and emergence more effectively. To this end a potentially generative nexus is examined in the interstices between system thinking/dynamics, insights into the edge of chaos, and holism as dynamical self-organisation to coherent wholeness. Keyphrases: Epistemology, Interstitial Spaces, Meta-systemic, Ontology, System Dynamics, edge of chaos
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