scholarly journals Target Area Structural Support Systems Design to Achieve the Micron-Level Stability Requirement of the National Ignition Facility (NIF)

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (3P2) ◽  
pp. 837-841
Author(s):  
D.S. Ng ◽  
V.P. Karpenko ◽  
R. Wavrik
Keyword(s):  
Support Systems ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Target Area ◽  
National Ignition Facility ◽  
Structural Support

Duality theory and the management of the change–stability paradox

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Sutherland ◽  
Aaron CT Smith
Keyword(s):  
Duality Theory ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structural Support ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Stability Change ◽  
Opening Up

AbstractThis article proposes that duality theory plays a role in obtaining more nuanced and textured insights into the complex, paradoxical stability–change nexus by illustrating how tensions are managed not through definitive resolution toward one pole or the other, but through improvised boundary heuristics that establish a broad conforming imperative while opening up enabling mechanisms. Duality thinking also reinforces the need to discard assumptions about opposing values, instead replacing them with an appreciation of complementary concepts. The article explores the characteristics of dualities to allow managers to chart what they are seeking from their management interventions and subsequent choices in structural support systems. A key benefit of identifying and explaining duality characteristics comes in attempting to understand how to mediate between two contradictory dimensions of organizing, such as continuity and change. Our argument is that both need to be encouraged, but this requires a particular mindset where the problem of mediation viewed as the need to work towards simultaneity and synergistic mutuality rather than resolution of action between the two opposing dimensions.

Supporting the Complexity of Inquiring Organizations

2011 ◽  
pp. 109-132
Author(s):  
Dianne J. Hall ◽  
Yi Guo
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Multiagent System ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Agent Technology ◽  
Technological Support ◽  
Organization Support

This chapter examines the issue of technological support for inquiring organizations and suggests that the complexity of these organizations is best supported by a technology of equal complexity—that is, by agent technology. Agents and the complex systems in which they are active are ideal for supporting not only the activity of Churchman’s inquirers but also those components necessary to ensure an effective environment. Accordingly, a multiagent system to support inquiring organizations is introduced. By explaining agent technology in simple terms and by defining inquirers and other components as agents working within a multiagent system, this chapter demystifies agent technology, enables researchers to grasp the complexity of inquiring organization support systems, and provides the foundation for inquiring organization support systems design.

Duality theory and the management of the change–stability paradox

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Sutherland ◽  
Aaron CT Smith
Keyword(s):  
Duality Theory ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structural Support ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Stability Change ◽  
Opening Up

AbstractThis article proposes that duality theory plays a role in obtaining more nuanced and textured insights into the complex, paradoxical stability–change nexus by illustrating how tensions are managed not through definitive resolution toward one pole or the other, but through improvised boundary heuristics that establish a broad conforming imperative while opening up enabling mechanisms. Duality thinking also reinforces the need to discard assumptions about opposing values, instead replacing them with an appreciation of complementary concepts. The article explores the characteristics of dualities to allow managers to chart what they are seeking from their management interventions and subsequent choices in structural support systems. A key benefit of identifying and explaining duality characteristics comes in attempting to understand how to mediate between two contradictory dimensions of organizing, such as continuity and change. Our argument is that both need to be encouraged, but this requires a particular mindset where the problem of mediation viewed as the need to work towards simultaneity and synergistic mutuality rather than resolution of action between the two opposing dimensions.

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