This document discusses how systems theory applies to the U.S. government and its role in international business. It outlines the three branches of government - legislative, executive, judicial - and how each self-regulates through feedback loops and communications between branches. The executive branch in particular functions as both an autopoietic (self-regulating) and allopoietic (creating things external to itself) system when conducting international business. Examples are given of how government policymaking involves many interconnected influences and works to maintain stability through its open-yet-rule-bound interactions with other countries on issues like climate change, trade, and foreign policy.

2. U.S. Government,
Systems Theory
and International
Business
Executive
Judicial
Legislative Financial Markets
 Intellectual Property Rights
 Maintaining Rule of Law
 Anti-Trust Cases
 Internet Communications,
cybersecurity threats
 Human Rights in the
Supply Chain
 Labor Rights
 Agriculture
 Product Labeling

3. Objectives and Definitions
 To give evidence of systems theory in the U.S. Government.
 To present the functionality of dual open and closed systems to create
stable government.
 Outline the self-regulation of each branch, in the context of international
business.
 Autopoiesis states a system self-regulates and produces itself through its
communications.
 Feedback Loop is the sending of communications between sender and
receiver.
 Allopoiesis is the creation of something other than the self, a product,
which requires a unique power or ability; or branch.

5. The Legislative
Branch
 Bicameral
 Senate
 100 members
 Six years
 House of Representatives
 435 members
 2 years
 Reapportioned after each
census

6. President Obama signing Dodd-Frank Act into law on April 21, 2010 with
Sen. Chris Dodd (D., Conn) , Rep. Barney Franks (D., Mass), Vice
President Joe Biden and members of the U.S. Congress

7. Judicial
Branch Supreme
Court
U.S Circuit
Court
U.S. District
Court
 U.S. Supreme Court
 13 Regional Circuit Court
of Appeals, U.S. Court of
International Trade
 94 judicial districts
U.S. Bankruptcy Courts
U.S. Court of Federal Claims

8. Autopoiesis: A Hybrid System
Supreme
Court
Circuit
Court
District
court
 Closed system
operationally
 Open system cognitively

9. Autonomy: Following the Law or Risk
Management?
Legal
Illegal

10. The Executive Branch and
International Business
• The Executive Branch conducts business in a
hybrid of autopoietic and allopoietic systems
• This branch has the greatest interconnection of
any of the three branches of government
• The inputs and multivariable influences of the
system maintain themselves in a dynamic state of
fluid stability

11. An Example of Government and Climate
Change Interconnectedness

12. Inputs of the
most
influential
elements to
foreign
policy

13. The United States, Closed system to Govern, Open
to Trade
International trade is a capability of a model which self-regulates and conducts itself
in accordance with rule of law, while it interacts freely and openly with its
neighbors.
United
States
China
Latin America