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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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CREATIVE DESTRUCTION 1)2)5)

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A process of destruction of existing structures that opens the possibility for fundamental change.

This expression comes from economics and was introduced by the Austrian economist Joseph SCHUMPETER (1883-1950). According to Schumpeter, periodic waves of scientific discoveries and subsequent technical innovations trigger deep (and frequently traumatic) changes in economies and societies. Older trades and structures are destroyed and progressively replaced by new and very different ones. An example has been the destruction of older modes of transportation after the invention of the internal combustion engine (allowing the massive use of fossil energy of oil) and the deep transformation of economy, urban life and generally societies that resulted.

Moreover creative destruction appears to be a still more general process. Edgar Morin observes for example that all great religions of the world were predicated by one singular and exceptional individual (Moises, Jesus, Siddharta, Mahoma, Luther). All of them triggered radical social and religious destructuration and restructuration (1999, p. 79)

In fact creative destruction is a universal systemic evolutive process (from cosmology to biology, to business and to culture) whose significance seems to remain yet insufficiently explored, understood and managed (if possible!)

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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