ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the following question: How can systemic changes affect the change processes in the Fourth Industrial Revolution? In the Fourth Industrial Revolution, artificial intelligence, intelligent robots and intelligent informats will increase the probability of systemic connections emerging in the global economy. In change processes, particularly in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it is important to be aware of systemic processes, because a small change in one area of a system can have catastrophic consequences in other areas. As systemic thinking gained more acceptance in organizational theory and in the scientific world, there occurred a transition from viewing knowledge as something acquired and possessed by an individual, to something that results from a process of co-creation between several people. At all levels of an organization, changes and innovations occur, as well as resistance to the changes and innovations. Self-organization in complex social systems must be seen in the context of the phenomenon of emergence.
