Shaping Collaborative Ecosystems for Tomorrow

by Igor Perko (Editor), Raul Espejo (Editor), Alfonso Reyes (Editor)

Overview

The presence of intelligent tools, both in the digital and physical realms, is progressively enhancing our capacities to act on personal, organizational, national, and international levels, leading to both intended and unintended consequences. Collectively, these changes are reshaping our world at a speed and scale that necessitate earnest consideration. In the midst of uncertainty, the development and utilization of these new capabilities would greatly benefit from CyberSystemic approaches and methods of learning.

The book drives readers to adopt a different - CyberSystemic approach, moving beyond perceiving individuals merely as subjects or consumers to recognizing them as citizens. This shift implies an active role in constructing organizations and social policies as conversational networks wherein individuals collectively contribute to the formulation of purposes and products. The editors put forward concepts and examples that illuminate and exemplify these perspectives on citizenship in organizational and social contexts.

Readers will discover several conceptual frameworks and usage cases of CyberSystemic methodologies in various fields, providing the first look at the latest development of the grey methodology and the AI relation to individuals and governance and will provide the first discussion on the General Interactions theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781836624950
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	12/15/2025
Pages:	468
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

Igor Perko is currently serving as an Associate Professor at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business in Slovenia.

Raul Espejo is President of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) and Director of Syncho Research, UK.

Alfonso Reyes is the chancellor of Universidad de Ibagué. He is a physicist and a systems engineer from Los Andes University.

Table of Contents

Book Introduction; Igor Perko, Raul Espejo, and Alfonso Reyes
Section I. Introduction: Combining Interactions in Physical, Digital, Natural, and Artificial Worlds into CyberSystemic Realities
Chapter 1. Interactions – A CyberSystemic Model and an Observation Framework Proposal; Igor Perko
Chapter 2. A New Methodology in Support of Critical Systems Thinking: Critical Systems Intervention; Petter Øgland and Gary Evans
Chapter 3. Impact of Cobots Integration on the Healthcare Organisations: Systems Thinking Approach; Vasja Roblek, Vlado Dimovski, and Judita Peterlin
Chapter 4. AI: Irrevocable Shift from Problem Solving-Making to Problem Complexity Analysing; Nikolai Razin
Chapter 5. Full-Analogue Photonic AI for Embracing the Uncertainty of the Environment; Aleksandr Raikov and Meng Guo
Chapter 6. Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Data Canyons in the Context of Cybernetics; Bojan Žlahtič, Peter Kokol, Grega Žlahtič, and Milan Zorman
Chapter 7. Mandatory Feature and Differences of Intelligences: Waves of Indoctrination; Michail Kozlov
Section II. Introduction: Integrating Ecological, Social, and Economic Dimensions of Organisational Governance and Management
Chapter 8. From Viability to Sustainable Self-Governance and Collaboration, as the Basis for a Post-Capitalistic Society; Angela Espinosa and Jon Walker
Chapter 9. Ontological Cybernetics Revisited; Stephen Harwood
Chapter 10. New Horizons for the Viable System Model; David Cooper
Chapter 11. Online Consumer Behaviour: Reinterpreting Marketplaces through the Viable System Approach; Paolo Barile, Guido Iandiorio, Clara Bassano, Gennaro Maione, and Mattia Lettieri
Chapter 12. From Platformization to Community-Centric Resilience: Understanding the Sharing Economy through System Thinking; Anna Roberta Gagliardi and Luca Carrubbo
Chapter 13. Circular Economy Business Models: A Systemic Approach to Balancing the Pillars of Sustainability; Gandolfo Dominici and Ineza Gagnidze
Chapter 14. A Triple Helix Approach in Sustainable Tourism Governance; Marialuisa Saviano, Majid Heidari, Daniele Verderese, and Mattia Lettieri
Chapter 15. Analysing Smart Tourism Ecosystems for Sustainable Development: A System Dynamics Approach; Pooyan Sedarati, Tadeja Jere Jakulin, and Francisco Manuel Dionísio Serra
Chapter 16. Enabling Circular Economy by Breaking Up System Boundaries; Johannes Klinglmayr
Section III. Introduction: Enhancing Active Citizenship and Democratic Processes
Chapter 17. Water Governance for Sustainability: What do We Need for a Viable Future?; Juliana Mariano Alves and Markus Schwaninger
Chapter 18. About Ecology: Structural Mechanisms to Improve Collaboration in Policy Issues; Raul Espejo
Chapter 19. Coping with Global Warming: Systemic Design, Scope, and Scale; Markus Schwaninger and Stefan Ott
Chapter 20. Technocracy or Democracy? Educating Citizens in the Era of Automation and Simulation; Piero Dominici
Chapter 21. Enhancing Active Citizenship in Self-Developing Poly-Subject Environments (Ontological Approach); Lepskiy Vladimir
Chapter 22. Operationally Closed Systems develop Eigenbehaviour: From Learning Systems to Global Decarbonisation; Clas-Otto Wene
Chapter 23. Democratising Research: A Citizen Panel Experiment in France; Martine Legris and Michèle Friend