Critical Systems Thinking
Directed Readings
Published on 22. October 1991
Book
Hardback
364 pages
978-0-471-93098-3 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
710 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-93098-3 (9780471930983)
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Content
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.