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| Author: | Boxer, P. Kenny, V. |
| Title: | The economy of discourses: A third order cybernetics? |
| Journal: | Human Systems Management
1990 : VOL. 9:4, p. 205-224 |
| Index terms: | CYBERNETICS SCIENCE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SCIENTIFIC METHODS BUSINESS ECONOMICS ACCOUNTING RESEARCH |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The idea of and necessity for a "third-order cybernetics" is introduced. It is done through the critique and problematisation of the ontology of the observer as elaborated within a second-order cybernetics. The epistemological presumptions are provided upon which a new characterisation of and approach to the business organisation is generated, and presented as "Economy of Discourses". The Economy is a description of the effects of a third-order in second-order observer's invention of himself as subject. Two case studies are included, one of a chemical-based manufacturer, the other of a large accountancy practice. It is ended by an outline of the implications for an ethics of consultancy. |
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