The RISCOM model: dialogues and requisite organisation
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the issue of transparency in policy‐making processes.
Design/methodology/approach
Development and application of conceptual framework for policy studies.
Findings
Complementarity of Habermas's theory of communicative action and Beer's Viable System Model. Relevance of the ideas of requisite organisation in policy‐making and of “orthogonality” in social communications.
Practical implications
Transparency of policy processes is more than making information available to stakeholders; it is enabling the development of an effective organisational system for the policy of concern.
Originality/value
This paper relates Beer's organizational cybernetics and Habermas' political philosophy and produces an original model of transparency in policy‐making.
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Citation
Espejo, R. (2007), "The RISCOM model: dialogues and requisite organisation", Kybernetes, Vol. 36 No. 3/4, pp. 291-306. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684920710746968
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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