Autopoiesis, dissipative structures, and spontanneous social orders

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Machine/Organism Dichotomy of Free-Market Economics: Crisis or

Abstract. The free-market economy is being continually challenged -by governments, monopolies, "too big to fail" enterprises, global banks and social experimentation. Crisis is still considered to be a failure of the capitalistic system rather than a failure of politicized state and governmental institutions unable to abstain from interfering with free-market fundamentals. Crisis represents a necessary catharsis which periodically renews and regenerates prevailing business ecology. At the same time, especially with the current crisis, the system is undergoing fundamental transformation, change of paradigm and change of dominant business models. Transformations get naturally confounded with crises. Man's failure and challenge is that we repeatedly fail to do the catharsis of crisis -without the crisis. Disentangling the phenomena of crisis from those of transformation is the main charge of this paper. We address the issues of unemployment in the post-crisis environment, especially in the U.S. We trace the difficulties to treating economy as a deterministic machine while it behaves as an adaptive organism

\u3ci\u3eThe IEBM Handbook of Information Technology in Business\u3c/i\u3e

Editor: Milan Zeleny Chapter, Face Recognition, authored by Qiuming Zhu, UNO faculty member Chapter, Voice Recognition, authored by Qiuming Zhu, UNO faculty member Chapter, Computer Vision, authored by Qiuming Zhu, UNO faculty member Information technology and management information systems are assuming an ever greater importance in the arena of business and management. Traditional areas of the work place are being redefined while MIS and IT are becoming the most potent productive forces and sources of competitive advantage. The IEBM Handbook of IT in Business explains these new developments and puts them into the wider business context. Coverage includes clear explanations of the new technological developments in the business world, how and why they are being applied, and the new strategies and infrastructures involved.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/facultybooks/1291/thumbnail.jp

Self Service Technologies: A Cause of Unemployment

The self-service technologies (SSTs) are fast changing the conventional way of transacting business by business organisations. The rapid innovation of self-service technologies and its adoption and usages in all facets of human systems is acclaimed to be fast rendering low skilled workers jobless. The major sectors of the economy in advanced economies have reached their peaks and can no longer provide new employment due to an increase in the productivity growth rate as a result of technology advances. These SSTs have in no small measure brought about an increase in productivity growth rate, cost reduction and anincrease in the speed of service delivery to customers. This paper examines if self-service technologies truly are the cause of persistent unemployment through a study of the long term metamorphosis of the major economic sectors in advanced economies. This study revealed that the SSTs presents both risks and opportunities