Principles of Information Systems
Principles of Information Systems
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ISBN: 9781337660556
Author: Ralph Stair; George Reynolds
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Open systems are organizations which has the capability to affect and are being affected by their neighboring environment.

Hence, the correct answer is “Open”.

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An open system is a system which exchanges feedback with its external environment. They cannot completely control their own behavior and are influenced by various external forces. A healthy open system will continuously keep on exchanging feedback with their environments, analyzing those feedbacks, adjusting internal system to achieve the system goal, and then transmitting the required information back to the environment.

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