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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the balancing of these complexities at a level of performance that not only maintains the organisation\u2019s viability but also the health of its ecosystem.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 Ashby (1964) proposed variety, or the number of possible states of a situation, as a measure of complexity and the Law of Requisite Variety as an ontology and heuristic for complexity management strategies. Following these propositions Beer\u2019s variety engineering (Beer, 1979) is a construct to design these strategies.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 This paper offers epistemological and methodological considerations to discuss the viability and performance of organisational systems.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 Measuring organisational performance needs powerful methodological support. 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