The viability of cooperative societies from the anarchist- cybernetics perspective: a systematic review of the field and research opportunities

Camilo Osejo Bucheli

doi:10.16925/2357-6014.2023.03.04

La viabilidad de las sociedades cooperativas desde la perspectiva anarquista-cibernética : una revisión sistemática del campo y las oportunidades de investigación

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https://doi.org/10.16925/2357-6014.2023.03.04

Camilo Osejo Bucheli Ver Biografía

Universidad de Nariño

Introducción: este artículo hace parte de una investigación en curso que estudia la viabilidad de las cooperativas desde la cibernética y su identidad política.

Problema: la cibernética de gestión y el anarquismo son campos con coincidencias significativas en cuanto a la teoría organizacional. Desde el anarquismo, la organización voluntaria propende por la libertad individual, mientras que, en cibernética, la autonomía es la forma de lograrla.

Objetivo: identificar el estado académico actual en el campo de la cibernética- anarquista, específicamente, entorno a los conceptos de “autogestión” y “autocontrol”.

Metodología: revisión sistemática de la literatura, de los últimos 10 años usando 9 bases de datos académicas.

Resultados: el campo ha investigado sobre grupos políticos radicales, pero carece de investigación en organización espontánea y en organizaciones voluntarias como cooperativas. predominan los métodos cualitativos para la investigación empírica, y la investigación no empírica es relevante. Las economías latinoamericanas y en desarrollo son interesantes para el desarrollo futuro. Los estudios de caso y el método histórico son relevantes para lo estudiado en anarquía y el VSM de Beer es el más utilizado para la cibernética.

Conclusión: El campo es de gran interés para varias revistas académicas.

Originalidad: esta es la primera investigación en el lado organizativo del anarquismo y la cibernética de gestión. La cibernética anarquista es un tema novedoso después de casi 60 años de no tener ninguna publicación académica.

Limitaciones: no hay muchas publicaciones que se ajusten a los requisitos para la revisión de la literatura.

Palabras clave: autogestión, autocontrol, anarquismo, cibernética

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