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  1. Viruses as Living Systems? Borrowed Closure and the Limits of Autopoiesis

    Article • September 2026, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  2. The Coercivity Law of Enaction Within Fisher-Generative Informational Realism: A Cybernetic Threshold for Autopoietic Closure

    Article • Systems, September 2026, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  3. Intelligent cells, intelligent organizations: applying cellular behaviors to organizational management

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Economics, July 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  4. Diagnosing pharmaceutical regulatory agencies: A metacybernetic framework for innovation and governance

    Article • Technological Forecasting and Social Change, May 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  5. Metacybernetics: Aspect Traits and Fractal Patterns in Higher-Order Cybernetics

    Article • Systems, May 2026, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  6. Quantum-Informed Cybernetics for Collective Intelligence in IoT Systems

    Article • Applied Sciences, December 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  7. Quantum-Informed Cybernetics for Collective Intelligence in IoT Systems

    Article • October 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  8. Understanding Belief - A Mindset Agency Approach

    Article • August 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  9. The Psychological Impact of Technology: Narrative Memetics and Psychosocial Contagion in Digital Network

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  10. UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES TOWARD KNOWLEDGE CYBERNETICS

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  11. Viruses as Living Systems-A Metacybernetic View

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  12. Diagnosing Market Capitalism: A Metacybernetic View

    Article • Systems, September 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  13. Understanding Belief - A Mindset Agency Approach

    Article • September 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  14. Diagnosing Complex Organisations with Diverse Cultures—Part 2: Application to ASEAN

    Article • Systems, March 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  15. The Cybernetics of Ecology

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  16. Diagnosing Complex Organisations with Diverse Cultures—Part 1: Agency Theory

    Article • Systems, December 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  17. Diagnosing ASEAN – Part 2: Theory Application

    Article • August 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  18. Diagnosing ASEAN –Part 1: the Metacybernetic Theory

    Article • August 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  19. Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union

    Article • June 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  20. Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union.

    Article • May 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  21. From Solid Evolution to Liquid Evolution: Challenges to Public Administration and Institutions

    Article • KnE Social Sciences, February 2023, Knowledge E

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  22. Consciousness, Sapience and Sentience—A Metacybernetic View

    Article • Systems, December 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  23. Viruses as Living Systems—A Metacybernetic View

    Article • Systems, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  24. Autopoiesis and Its Efficacy—A Metacybernetic View

    Article • Systems, October 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  25. A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory

    Article • July 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  26. Towards a General Theory of Higher Order Cybernetics

    Article • Systems, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  27. Agency, ecosystems and sustainable development. Part 1: the ecosystem

    Article • Kybernetes, January 2021, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  28. Agency, generic ecosystems and sustainable development: Part 2 agency as an ecosystem

    Article • Kybernetes, January 2021, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  29. From Metacybernetics to Mindset Agency Theory

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  30. Agency Mindset Theory

    Article • Acta Europeana Systemica, July 2020, Centre de Recherche en Demographie et Societes

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  31. Towards a general hybrid theory in wicked problem structuring part 1: the foundation

    Article • Kybernetes, February 2020, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  32. Towards a general hybrid theory in wicked problem structuring part 2: the relational agency paradigm

    Article • Kybernetes, February 2020, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  33. The Third Order Cybernetics of Eric Schwarz

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  34. Modelling multiples identity types through agency: Part 3 – mindsets and the Trump election

    Article • Kybernetes, April 2018, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  35. AFFECT TYPES AND MINDSET TYPES in comparison

    Article • Kybernetes, January 2018, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles, Professor Gerhard Fink

  36. Affect and cognition, part 1: “cross-fire” interaction model

    Article • Kybernetes, January 2018, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles, Professor Gerhard Fink

  37. Affect and Cognition, Part 1: ‘Cross-Fire’ Interaction Model

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  38. Modelling Identity Types through Agency: Part 2, Personal Identity and Mindsets

    Article • Kybernetes, June 2017, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  39. Modelling identity types through agency: part 1 defragmenting identity theory

    Article • Kybernetes, June 2017, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  40. Antecedents of cultural agency theory: in the footsteps of Schwarz living systems

    Article • Kybernetes, February 2017, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  41. The Changing Organization

    Article • January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  42. Maruyama Mindscapes, Myers-Briggs Type Indicators and Cultural Agency Mindset Types

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  43. Myers-Briggs-Type Indicators, Maruyama Mindscapes and Agency Mindset Theory

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  44. Collective emotion regulation in an organisation – a plural agency with cognition and affect

    Article • Journal of Organizational Change Management, August 2015, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  45. A general theory of generic modelling and paradigm shifts: part 3 – the extension

    Article • Kybernetes, February 2015, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles, Professor Gerhard Fink

  46. A general theory of generic modelling and paradigm shifts: part 2 – cybernetic orders

    Article • Kybernetes, February 2015, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles, Professor Gerhard Fink

  47. A general theory of generic modelling and paradigm shifts: part 1 – the fundamentals

    Article • Kybernetes, February 2015, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles, Professor Gerhard Fink

  48. Modelling Mindsets of an Agency

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  49. Personality, pathology and mindsets: part 1 – agency, personality and mindscapes

    Article • Kybernetes, January 2014, Emerald

    Professor Gerhard Fink, Professor Maurice Yolles

  50. Personality, pathology and mindsets: part 2 – cultural traits and enantiomers

    Article • Kybernetes, January 2014, Emerald

    Professor Gerhard Fink, Professor Maurice Yolles

  51. Personality, pathology and mindsets: part 3 – pathologies and corruption

    Article • Kybernetes, January 2014, Emerald

    Professor Gerhard Fink, Professor Maurice Yolles

  52. A Theory of the Collective Agency

    Article • January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  53. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Personality: Assessing Knowledge Profiling and the Work Preference Inventory in a Thai Population

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  54. Understanding the Sustainability of Insurgency Conflict in Thailand

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  55. An Introduction to Mindset Theory

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Gerhard Fink, Professor Maurice Yolles

  56. Exploring Mindset Agency Theory

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Gerhard Fink, Professor Maurice Yolles

  57. An Introduction to Mindset Theory

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Gerhard Fink, Professor Maurice Yolles

  58. The Role of Managerial and Organizational Intelligences

    Article • January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles, Daniel Dauber

  59. Organisations as emergent normative personalities: part 2, predicting the unpredictable

    Article • Kybernetes, August 2012, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles, Professor Gerhard Fink

  60. Personality, Pathology and Sagiv-Schwartz Mindscapes

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Gerhard Fink, Professor Maurice Yolles

  61. Configuration model of organisational culture

    Article • SAGE Open, January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Gerhard Fink, Professor Maurice Yolles, Daniel Dauber

  62. Understanding the Imperative for a Corporate Paradigm Change

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  63. Understanding Organisational Intelligences as Constituting Elements of Normative Personality

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  64. Understanding the Sustainability of Insurgency Conflict in Thailand

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles, Sompoap Talabgaew

  65. Agency Theory, Values, and Early Evolutionary Economic Theory

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  66. Exploring the Common Roots of Culture, Politics and Economics

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  67. Narratives, paradigms and change - the issue of relevance

    Article • European J of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management, January 2012, Inderscience Publishers

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  68. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Personality: Assessing Knowledge Profiling and the Work Preference Inventory in a Thai Population

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  69. Understanding organisational culture as a trait theory

    Article • European J of International Management, January 2012, Inderscience Publishers

    Professor Maurice Yolles, Daniel Dauber

  70. UNDERSTANDING NORMATIVE PERSONALITY

    Article • Cybernetics & Systems, August 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles, Daniel Dauber

  71. Organisations as emergent normative personalities: part 1, the concepts

    Article • Kybernetes, June 2011, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles, Daniel Dauber

  72. Agencies, normative personalities and the Viable Systems Model

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  73. Understanding Organisational Culture as a Trait Theory

    Article • January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles, Daniel Dauber

  74. Editorial

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, December 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  75. Assessing values and value change in Thai organizations

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, December 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  76. Understanding corruption

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  77. Exploring complex sociocultural situations through soft operational research

    Article • Pesquisa Operacional, August 2010, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  78. Cybernetics of Tao

    Article • Kybernetes, May 2010, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  79. Competitive Advantage and Its Conceptual Development

    Article • January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  80. A Yin-Yang Theory of the Collective Agency

    Article • January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  81. Use of Weibull Distribution as a Means of Assessing Political Conflicts

    Article • January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  82. Setting the theoretical stage: a reply to Magala

    Article • European J of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management, January 2010, Inderscience Publishers

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  83. Coherence, pathology and change in Chinese commercial banks

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, December 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  84. Migrating personality theories Part 2: towards a theory of the balanced personality?

    Article • Kybernetes, October 2009, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  85. A social psychological basis of corruption and sociopathology

    Article • Journal of Organizational Change Management, October 2009, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  86. Migrating personality theories Part 1: creating agentic trait psychology?

    Article • Kybernetes, June 2009, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  87. Competitive advantage and its conceptual development

    Article • Business Information Review, May 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  88. Editorial

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, April 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  89. Modelling Pathologies in Social Collectives

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  90. International Joint Ventures, HRM and Viable Knowledge Migration

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  91. From Viable Systems to Surfing the Organisation

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  92. Editorial

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, March 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  93. From sociohistory to psychohistory

    Article • Kybernetes, April 2007, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  94. The dynamics of narrative and antenarrative and their relation to story

    Article • Journal of Organizational Change Management, February 2007, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  95. Modelling pathologies in social collectives

    Article • European J of International Management, January 2007, Inderscience Publishers

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  96. Sociohistory: An Information Theory of Social Changef

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  97. Knowledge cybernetics: a new metaphor for social collectives

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, October 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  98. Guest editorial

    Article • Systems Research and Behavioral Science, September 2006, Wiley

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  99. Exploring public–private partnerships through knowledge cybernetics

    Article • Systems Research and Behavioral Science, September 2006, Wiley

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  100. Culture and transformational change with China's accession to the WTO

    Article • Journal of Technology Management in China, May 2006, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  101. Editorial

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, December 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  102. A metahistorical information theory of social change: the theory

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, September 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  103. A metahistorical information theory of social change: an application

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, September 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  104. Revisiting the political cybernetics of organisations

    Article • Kybernetes, June 2005, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  105. Identifying those on board ‘the moving train’: towards a stakeholder-focused methodology for organizational decision making

    Article • Systems Research and Behavioral Science, January 2005, Wiley

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  106. Organisational intelligence

    Article • Employee Counselling Today, January 2005, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  107. HRM and knowledge migration across cultures

    Article • Employee Relations The International Journal, December 2004, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  108. Implications for Beer's ontological system/metasystem dichotomy

    Article • Kybernetes, March 2004, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  109. Editorial

    Article • Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, March 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  110. HRD and knowledge migration in SME–academic partnerships

    Article • February 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  111. The political cybernetics of organisations

    Article • Kybernetes, December 2003, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  112. International HRD alliances in viable knowledge migration and development: the Czech Academic Link Project

    Article • Human Resource Development International, September 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  113. Complexifying organisational development and HRD

    Article • August 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  114. Complexity, HRD and organisation development

    Article • August 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  115. Paradigmatic metamorphosis and organizational development

    Article • Systems Research and Behavioral Science, March 2003, Wiley

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  116. Reply to Bryant

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, December 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  117. Reply to Ormerod

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, March 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  118. International joint ventures, HRM and viable knowledge migration

    Article • The International Journal of Human Resource Management, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  119. Across the great divide: HRD, technology translation, and knowledge migration in bridging the knowledge gap between SMEs and Universities

    Article • Human Resource Development International, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  120. Introduction to Knowledge Profiling

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  121. Viable boundary critique

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  122. Organisations, complexity, and viable knowledge management

    Article • Kybernetes, December 2000, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  123. THE THEORY OF VIABLE JOINT VENTURES

    Article • Cybernetics & Systems, June 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  124. Viable Learning Systems

    Article • Interactive Learning Environments, April 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  125. Book review: Management Systems: A Viable Approach. By Maurice Yolles. Published by Financial Times Pitman Publishing, 1999, 474 pp., ISBN 0 273 62018 5, £25.95 (paperback).

    Article • Systems Research and Behavioral Science, September 1999, Wiley

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  126. A cybernetic exploration of methodological complementarism

    Article • Kybernetes, July 1998, Emerald

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  127. CHANGING PARADIGMS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

    Article • Cybernetics & Systems, March 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  128. Viable Inquiry Systems

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  129. Critical systems thinking, paradigms, and the modelling space

    Article • December 1996

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  130. Book reviews

    Article • August 1995

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  131. Ethnic pay differentials

    Article • New Community, October 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  132. A design for a transnational project management system

    Article • Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, September 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  133. Walsh theory and spectral analysis of engineering surfaces

    Article • Wear, December 1982, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  134. Least Squares Successive Relaxation

    Article • IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, January 1975, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  135. Linking Methodological Complementarism with the Theory of Joint Alliances

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  136. Knowledge Cycles and Sharing

    Article • IGI Global

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  137. Complexifying organisational development and HRD

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  138. Exploring the Common Roots of Culture, Politics and Economics (Slides Show)

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  139. Knowledge Cybernetics

    Article • IGI Global

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  140. Complexity, HRD and organisation development

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  141. Knowledge Cybernetics

    Article • IGI Global

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  142. Generating Corporate Life Cycles from the Paradigm Life Cycle

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  143. Towards simulation of the conflict modelling cycle

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  144. Knowledge Cycles and Sharing

    Article • IGI Global

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  145. Generic Agency Theory, Cybernetic Orders and New Paradigms

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  146. The Affective Agency: An Agency with Feelings and Emotions

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles

  147. Governance Through Political Bureaucracy: An Agency Approach

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Professor Maurice Yolles