by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD Demand asymmetry is a fourth asymmetry: the client-customer’s experience always leaves him or her with something more to be desired.[1] It means that a client-customer’s demand can never be fully…
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by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD In distinguishing emergence from hierarchy, the stratified relation of novel emergence was described of a product produced from underlying component technologies. This relation was linked to the first asymmetric dilemma…
by Philip Boxer Bsc MBA PhD[1] Open systems and their 1st-order behavioral closures Individuals identified with an enterprise, the formal behavioral model of which is thought to be deterministic, believe that the enterprise can dictate responses…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD Some years ago, I published a paper titled: The stratification of cause: when does the desire of the leader become the leadership of desire”[1]. The paper’s aim was to understand…
Title: Working forensically with toxic thinking: what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger Author: Philip Boxer Category: Presented at ISPSO Annual Meeting Rome 2015 In an increasingly networked world, enterprises are being expected to organise…
Title: The Governance of Specialist Care: a question of ethics? Author: Philip Boxer Category: Presented at OPUS Conference 2014 This paper describes a two-year intervention within an organization providing residential care for men and women…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD This paper, presented at the OPUS 2014 Conference, describes a two-year intervention within an organization providing residential care for men and women with mental health disabilities. This intervention, in…
by Philip Boxer PhD Why the interest in stratification? A colleague, Simon Western, referred me recently to Actor-Network Theory and the work of Bruno Latour in the context of a conversation about the behaviour of…
Title: Defences against innovation: the conservation of vagueness Author: Philip Boxer Category: Submitted for Publication – not to be quoted An individual newly joining an enterprise may experience it as a social defence system to…
Title: Leading organisations without boundaries: ‘quantum’ organisation and the work of making meaning Author: Philip Boxer Category: Published Organisational & Social Dynamics 14(1) 130-153 (2014) Digitalisation and the internet lead every client to expect more…