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A Journey Through Possible Views of Relational Logic

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Social Dynamics in a Systems Perspective

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This chapter discusses how the relational logic is one of the most interesting and profitable management paradigms to understand firms’ behaviour and to foster value co-creation processes.

The relational view and the resulting relational inter-subjective dynamics are critical success factors for corporate governance capable to mobilise different involved actors’ resources. However, the importance of a system perspective of relational dynamics is only recently discussed in the current doctrinal debate. Therefore, our goal is to contribute in bridging this gap by reinterpreting, in a system key, the issue of relations. Methodologically, the authors have carried out a review taking a system vision, in order to conceptualize an original interpretative model. The interpretative model that we call “Enterprise Relational Vision” (ERV) is based on the following assumptions (pillars): Relationality and autopoiesis, Dissemination and definition, Sense and cohesion, Training and decision formulation, Co-creation and regeneration, Resources and competitiveness, Leadership and viability.

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  1. Department of Business Science – Management and Innovation Systems, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

    Marco Pellicano, Maria V. Ciasullo & Orlando Troisi

  2. School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane City, QLD, Australia

    Gian Luca Casali

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    Marco Pellicano

  3. Salerno University , Salerno, Italy

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Pellicano, M., Ciasullo, M.V., Troisi, O., Casali, G.L. (2018). A Journey Through Possible Views of Relational Logic. In: Barile, S., Pellicano, M., Polese, F. (eds) Social Dynamics in a Systems Perspective. New Economic Windows. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61967-5_11

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