Exploitation learning capitalizing on the feedback system and the continuous evaluation of the system.

Coherence of organizational action

Focusing the attention of organizational actors and aligning behaviors.

Innovation, learning through exploration.

A lever to manage the paradoxes inherent to organizational dynamics (control/autonomy, deliberate/emergent, integration/differentiation, etc.).

A wider modularity of the system that favors its appropriation by the actors and the sense making.

An improvement in the transmission of information via the principle of required variety.

Dysfunctions and disturbances only affect a part of the system and not the whole (buffer effect).

ISSUES RELATED TO THE CHOICE OF THE COUPLING SYSTEM

Search for coherence in organizational action.

Willingness to standardize behaviors.

Facilitate the sensemaking and the commitment of the actors.

Respond to the contradictory demands of the environment.