Bernhard Schieber

Requisite variety in organizational regulation

Knowledge

Requisite variety links regulatory capacity to the range of situations a system must handle. In organizational design, it supports local autonomy and selective communication, asking whether decision makers have usable information and sufficient response options rather than merely receiving more reports.

What these mean

Editorial orientation · Family

Model

In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.

Editorial orientation · Category

Analytical Frameworks, Typologies & Heuristics

Organizes dimensions, distinctions, types or questions so that a situation can be examined systematically. A framework supplies structure, a typology distinguishes forms, and a heuristic offers a usable way to orient judgment.

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