Designing Resilient Organisations: With Operating Advantages for Public, Private, Non-Profit and Government Entities and Their Stakeholders,

Lambert Academic Publishing: Saarbrucken, Germany. 2014, ISBN 978-3-659-34586-9

468 Pages Posted: 18 Aug 2014

See all articles by Shann Turnbull

Shann Turnbull

International Institute for Self-Governance; Sustainable Money Working Group; New Garden City Alliance

Date Written: May 30, 2014

Abstract

New title for re-publication of PhD Thesis as a book with added Appendices: I, Keywords and concepts; II, Examiners report of November 5, 2000 confirming contributions to knowledge; III, Subsequent literature developed from Thesis. The promotional summary for the book states:

Dr Turnbull's thesis created a method for designing, comparing and evaluating organisations in the private, non-profit and government sectors. This was achieved by applying the science of control and communication used by scientists to design complex self-regulating machinery and self-governing robots to the control and communication systems among individuals and their organisations.

Transaction Byte Analysis is used to replace and extend the explanatory power of Transaction Costs Economics to allow the evaluation of complex organizations. The analysis is based on the laws of cybernetics. They explain why DNA has hard-wired social creatures to be governed by neural networks and possess contrary behaviour. Unlike hierarchies, network governance allows individuals and organizations to be contrary. This provides resilience to efficiently and reliably sustain their existence in complex environments. Command and control hierarchies inhibit contrariness and so resilience. This explains why extended communications hierarchies are not found in nature.

The title of the research was: "The governance of firms controlled by more than one board: Theory development and examples".

The original Thesis was posted on December 1, 2005 at http://ssrn.com/abstract=858244 with its Summary used as its abstract and the following Keywords and JEL classifications:

Keywords: Contrary behaviour, Corporate Governance, Evaluating Governance, Governance Architecture, Multiple boards, Organisational design, Self-governance, Stakeholder, Tensegrity, Theories of firms, Theory of organisations, Transaction Byte Analysis, Transaction Cost Economics

JEL Classification: B41, D70, D83, D85, L29

Suggested Citation

Turnbull, Shann, Designing Resilient Organisations: With Operating Advantages for Public, Private, Non-Profit and Government Entities and Their Stakeholders, (May 30, 2014). Lambert Academic Publishing: Saarbrucken, Germany. 2014, ISBN 978-3-659-34586-9, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2473393

Shann Turnbull (Contact Author)

International Institute for Self-Governance ( email )

PO Box 266 Woollahra
Cell: +61418222378
Sydney, New South Wales 1350
Australia
+61293278487 (Phone)
+61280655905 (Fax)

HOME PAGE: http://independent.academia.edu/ShannTurnbull/CurriculumVitae
SKYPE: shann.turnbull

Sustainable Money Working Group ( email )

Holyoake House
Hanover Street
Manchester, M60 0AS
United Kingdom

New Garden City Alliance ( email )

113 Guinness Court
Snowsfields
London, UK, hello@gardencities.org.uk SE1 3TA
United Kingdom
+44 207 378 1902 (Phone)

HOME PAGE: http://www.gardencities.org.uk

Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?

Paper statistics

Downloads
135
Abstract Views
1,190
Rank
381,795
PlumX Metrics