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Marburg economist Peter Rassidakis’ dissertation illustrates by means of system-theoretical tools how evolution as a process of increasing diversity takes place in different systems.
Individual evolution processes are considered following a presentation of basic system-theoretical proposals: From a system theory perspective individuals are operatively closed systems which can increase their diversity through autopoietic reproduction of consciousness. Environmental stimuli lead to an awareness of unconscious incompetence and trigger learning processes which take place at several learning stages. Individuals act in the context of the social systems they are involved in, and within which their communications are reproduced. Social systems perceive their environment through the participating individuals and have their own knowledge base, which is an emergent product of the knowledge and skills of these participants. Enterprise systems which use their structures and rules to allow, promote or prohibit specific communications are illustrated in particular. Key criteria are singled out which support knowledge building and enforcement within enterprise systems.
In a further step of this study economic systems are considered as a whole. Their main characteristics are interaction in form of payments and their value-added operation mode. These systems can be differentiated based on various classification criteria in different subsystems, such as functional systems; markets or industries. Economic systems can also undergo evolutionary processes. They thereby increase their ability to deal with current and future shortages. The necessity of evolution –in terms of the integration of new knowledge into the value creation process– is justified mainly by the diminishing marginal utility of innovations. Technological path dependences as well as socioeconomic factors have an essential influence upon the process of economic evolution.
Finally, the role of economic evolution for subordinated social systems and the importance of interactions between social subsystems for the production and diffusion of knowledge are examined. Special attention is given to the structural linkage of the systems of science and economy wherein the influence of social and system-specific standards and rules upon knowledge transfer between these systems is highlighted. The specific role of individual action in this process is emphasized considering the fundamental difficulty of transferring knowledge and experience.
The system-theoretical approach illustrates how the attempt to explain evolutionary processes depends on the delimitation effected by the observer. Perception, creation and selection of knowledge, thus, take place within limits the systemic perspective of a system itself or its environment identifies. Economic evolution can therefore be examined as a progression of specific interactions between the psychological, the enterprise and the economic systems.
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Created: 2009Issued: 2014-07-02Updated: 2014-07-02
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Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
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Management of Technological InnovationFirm Organization and Market StructureHuman Capital and SkillsHuman Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor ProductivityEducation and Economic Development
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InnovationOrganisationsentwicklungWirtschaftSystemtheorieWissensmanagementLernen
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330
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Rassidakis, Peter: Wirtschaftliche Evolution aus systemtheoretischer Perspektive. : Philipps-Universität Marburg 2014-07-02. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/z2009.0387.
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