Critical systems thinking : directed readings

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Critical systems thinking : directed readings

edited by Robert L. Flood and Michael C. Jackson

J. Wiley, c1991

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Bibliography: p. [343]

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume contains a collection of essays on the use of systems in the management sciences. The text provides an historical overview, gives the methodological foundation of systems and explores contemporary critical systems theory and practice.

Table of Contents

  • BEYOND OPERATIONAL RESEARCH AND HARD SYSTEMS THINKING: Operations Research as a Profession
  • The Future of Operational Research is Past
  • From Optimizing to Learning
  • THE BREAK WITH SOFT SYSTEMS THINKING: Marxism and Systems Research
  • Critical Heuristics of Social Systems Design
  • Social Systems Theory and Practice
  • Towards a System of Systems Methodologies
  • Methodological Foundations of Systems Methodologies
  • Testament to Conversations on Critical Systems Thinking Between Two Systems Practitioners
  • CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL SYSTEMS THEORY AND PRACTICE: Critical Systems Thinking in the 1980s
  • Between Systems Thinking and Systems Practice
  • Systems Thinking, Systems Practice and Practical Philosophy
  • Power-Ideology Matrix in Social Systems Control
  • Modernism, Postmodernism and Contemporary Systems Thinking
  • Redefining the Management and Systems Sciences
  • Total Systems Intervention.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA18906941
  • ISBN
    • 0471930989
  • LCCN
    91018868
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chichester ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 347 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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