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Flow Analysis of Choice

As the model unfolds, we are tempted to do one further step and go for a more general model, which does not only cover organizational choice but social choice in general. This one would be a model of the new open access world, a network world, to be distinguished from the institutional world of formal organizations we are about to leave behind. This model sticks with the re-entry-levels we already introduced - with one exception: it talks about "knowing" instead of "creating" -, but exchanges all the variables we haven't yet introduced formally ("behavior", "communication", "organization", and "society") and which hinted to autopoietical entities of some kind, for variables exhibiting an interface characteristics. Thus, we have a new model talking about "action", "talk", "budgets", "network" (this one we keep in place), and "system". It looks like:

social choice = action || talk || budget || network || system ||

The full model you find at http://homepage.mac.com/baecker/handouts/SocialChoice.pdf.

We here go for a "flow analysis of choice", assuming that "organization" or, better, "organizing" (Karl E. Weick) is only part of it, a part, that is, that stems from "budgets" attributed to you, you then decide on to know and make sure who works with you on what. I'll come back to this later.

The important point for now is that the new model is more like a flow model then an institutional model. It has organizing as one variables among all others, yet is not necessarily limited to organizational behavior.

That makes System One's contribution to a new form of work flow implementation even more far reaching. You may now enter budget variables among the search data you routinely account for, and extend your horizons of relevance the more the better you know where and how to account for them.

Budgets, to be sure, do not only consist in assets and liabilities accounted for in money terms, but may be viewed as budgets in reputation and prestige as well as in power and influence, or in knowledge and intelligence, or even in emotion and affect.

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