Numerous authors have books related to Stafford Beer’s work. The list below is a work in progress, trying to put together books published about the Viable System Model and Team Syntegrity from academic and practitioners. We do invite the readers to get in touch and help as to include any relevant book which we are missing in this first draft.
Espinosa, A. (2023). ‘Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society: The Viable System Model in action’. London: Francis & Taylor, Routledge.
Pfiffner, M. (2022). The Neurology of Business: Implementing the Viable System Model. Springer. Switzerland.
Asby, R.J.B., (2021). Thinking Systems and a process language for survival. Triarchy Press, Charmouth, UK
Pfiffner, Martin (2020) Die dritte Dimension des Organisierens. Steuerung und Kommunikation. Wiesbaden: Springer.
Lassl, W. (2020). The viability of organisations: Designing and changing organizations. (Vol 3) Vienna, Springer
Lassl, W. (2019). The viability of organisations: Diagnosing and governing organizations. (Vol 2) Vienna, Springer
Lassl, W. (2019). The viability of organisations: Decoding the DNA of organizations. (Vol 1) Vienna, Springer
Benjamin David and Komlos, David (2019) Cracking Complexity. The breakthrough formula for solving just about anything fast. Boston and London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing.
Lambertz, Mark (2018) Die Intelligente Organisation. Playbook für organisatorische Komplexität. Göttingen: Business Village.
Espinosa, A., & Walker, J. (2017). A complexity approach to sustainability: Theory and Application – Second Edition. (I. C. B. S. on Complexity, Ed.) (2nd ed.). UK: World Scientific Press
Pfiffner, Michael D. 2017. System viability of organizations and the aetiology of organizational crisis. A Quantitative Assessment of Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model. Dissertation Universität Utrecht.
Lambertz, Mark (2016) Freiheit & Verantwortung für intelligente Organisationen. Das Modell lebensfähiger Systeme nach Stafford Beer. 2. Auflage. Düsseldorf: Lambertz.
Pérez Ríos, J. (2012), Design and Diagnosis for Sustainable Organizations: The Viable System Method, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Espinosa, A., & Walker, J. (2011). A complexity approach to sustainability: Theory and Application – Second Edition. (I. C. B. S. on Complexity, Ed.) (1st ed.). UK: World Scientific Press
Espejo, R., & Reyes, A. (2011). Organizational systems: Managing complexity with the viable system model. Springer, London
Medina, E. (2011). Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile. MIT Press. Boston.
Golinelli, G. M. (2011). L’approccio Sistemico Vitale (ASV) al governo dell’impresa. Cedam, Padova, Italy.
Hoverstadt, P. (2008). The Fractal Organization. Creating sustainable organizations with the Viable Systems Model, John Wiley & Sons, London
Stokes, P.A. (2009). The Viability of Societies: Governance and Complexity Today, VDM Verlag Dr Muller Aktiengesellschraft and Co. KG, Saarbruken, Germany.
Perez-Rios, J. (2008). Diseño y Diagnóstico de Organizaciones Viables. Un enfoque Sistemico, Valladolid, Iberfora.
Christopher, W.F. (2007). Holistic Management: Managing What Matters for Company Success, John Wiley and Sons, New York.
Schwaninger, M. (2006). Intelligent Organisations: Powerful Models for Systemic Management, Springer, St Gallen.
Malik, F. (2006), Effective Top Management, Wiley-VCH, Weinheirn.
Medina, E. (2006). Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile*. J. Lat. Amer. Stud. 38, 571–606 f 2006 Cambridge University Press 571.
Yolles, M. (1999), Management Systems: A Viable Approach, Financial Times Pitman, London.
Malik, Fredmund (1989) Strategie des Managements komplexer Systeme. Ein Beitrag zur Management-Kybernetik evolutionärer Systeme. Bern und Stuttgart: Paul Haupt.
Walker, J. (1998) The Viable Systems Model a guide for co-operatives and federations.
Espejo, R., Schuhmann, W., Schwaninger M. and Billelo, U. (1996). Organisational Transformation and Learning, John Wiley and Sons, London.