Informational Governance and micro-macro linksGert Jan Hofstede, INF group

The message

1.Informational governance is data management in context●That means people management● It inherits from group behaviour...● ...which is strongly culture-driven

2. Informational governance involves self-organization●That can be ‘grown’ using agent-based modelling (ABM)●cf. the WU IP/OP theme Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)

Part 1. Information governance and transparency:bringing micro-macro links to life

“Information governance, or IG, is the set of multi-disciplinary structures, policies, procedures, processes and controls implemented to manage information at an enterprise level, supporting an organization's immediate and future regulatory, legal, risk, environmental and operational requirements” (Wikipedia, 2014)

“Transparency of a netchain is the extent to which all the netchain’s stakeholders have a shared understanding of, and access to, the product-related information that they request, without loss, noise, delay and distortion” (Hofstede, 2003)

G.J. Hofstede (2003) Transparency in Netchains. In: Information Technology for a better Agri-Food Sector, Environment and Rural Living. Debrecen University, Debrecen, Hungary

Old problem...

anne.hari@reedbusiness.com

G.J. Hofstede et al (2004) Hide or confide, the dilemma of transparency. Reed Business Information.

FMS ERP

at abattoir /at food processerat farmslaughtering deboning cutting packagingbreeding fattening

Wholesale / Retail

labelling

tracking

Services: discovery / search / smartphone apps

EPCISRepository

tracing

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Future state (Meat Information on Provenance in FIspace)

c.o. sjaak.wolfert@wur.nl

Transparency and micro-macro linksHide!Good for

me ...

Confide!Good for

all ...

Food chain: Micro-macro links A chain of products is really a network of people

Transparency:• History • Operations • Strategy

- 8 -small Power distance large

Uncertaintyavoidance

weak

market

machine

family

pyramid

Models of organisation

Germany

Switzerland Ge

AustriaSwitzerland Fr

France

Singapore

ChinaGreat Britain

Japan

United States

Italy

Russia

Polandstrong

Israel

India

Brazil

VlaanderenWallonie

Nederland

ColombiaMexico

Sweden

Costa Rica

Uruguay

PanamaArgentina

Kenya Nigeria

Pakistan

Luxembourg

Romania

VenezuelaCzeck Rep.

Denmark

Norway

Take home 1: solid ground

Informational governance:= Information management+

= ‘How to organize informing’

n.b. differs systematically across cultures:Who: might vs right,How: rules vs reality

Part 2, from micro to macro: CAS, self-organisation, emergence Our social reality:

“We do not intend the consequences of our actions”

Cristiano Castelfranchi, 2013

Individual intention System consequence

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Understanding Emergence is among INF aims

Social Simulation● Non-linearity, emergence (= self-organization)● Operationalizing social scientific theory● Can be used on informational governance

Modelling social realityNIAS-Lorentz Theme Group

Sep 2013 – Jan 2014 (www.nias.nl) Lorentz workshop January 2014 (

www.lorentzcenter.nl) Case: glass ceiling for girls Method: agent-based models of playground Conclusion: emergence > nurture > nature

Select methodMethodological aside

Begin study

End study

Com-plex?

Adap-tive?

ABM (agents perceive others /

environment

Draw conclusions ,

publish

Run model,

sensitivity analysis

Validate system

behaviourValidate agents

Development psychology

studies

CASMethod-ology

yes

yes

Example: Playground model 2014 (resulting from NIAS fellowship)

RQ: What causes gender status differences? ‘Nature’: Girls’ vs boys’

●Beauty●Kindness●fighting power

‘Nurture’:● (Dyad: Rough and tumble)●Category: Sex-difference-on-conferral●All: Culture (‘masculinity’: group condones fighting)

Emergence?

Interface

Effect of nature (kindness, power); & culture

Process: 20.000 runs Behav space .cvs Excel

transpose (or table

output) SPSS

Gender status gap

Emergent effects: group and culture

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Take home 2: potential for CAS methods

Generic social science can be used in ABM●To simulate realistic motives

Experimental findings can be used for specifics●Gender difference studies●Informational governance

We are just getting started...