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This chapter aims at clarifying the notion of organization se If-awareness (OSA) as the state of a collective awareness of the enterprise system. We examine how such awareness arises from the collective action of the enterprise’s agents, while applying principles and methods of enterprise engineering and enterprise architecture. We find that value modeling is a vital enabler of OSA while bridging the gap between the teleological and ontological views of an enterprise.
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Tribolet, J., Pombinho, J., Aveiro, D. (2014). Organizational Self-Awareness: A Matter of Value. In: Magalhàes, R. (eds) Organization Design and Engineering. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137351579_7
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