A Systems Model for the Analysis of Industrial Democracy Reforms

  • T. Baumgartner
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Abstract

The graphic model of a capitalist system is presented. It incorporates the multi-dimensionality of social processes, the spin-off and spill-over effects of social action linking the economic, socio-cultural and political spheres among each other, and the multi-level relations between processes and their outcomes and the contexts of these processes. It is designed to test the system for its compatibilities or incompatibilities with different industrial democracy measures which change the organization of work.

Keywords

Social Process Work Organization Capitalist System Political Sphere Socialist System 
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© The World Organisation of General Systems and Cybernetics 1978

Authors and Affiliations

  • T. Baumgartner
    • 1
  1. 1.Economie et Société, Institut des Sciences EconomiquesUniversité Catholique de LouvainLouvain-la-NeuveBelgium

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