Systems Thinking is a new paradigm set to revolutionize management
practice in the 21st century. Systems Approaches to Management is
the most comprehensive guide available to the application of this
new paradigm in the field of management. It, * Traces the emergence
of holistic thinking in disciplines such as biology, control
engineering, sociology and the natural sciences * Details and
provides a critique, based upon social theory, of the range of
systems approaches, methodologies, models and methods * Offers
numerous case studies to illustrate systems thinking applied to
management * Introduces critical systems thinking' as a coherent
framework that brings unity to the diversity of different systems
approaches and advises managers, consultants, scholars and students
on their use * Provides an accessible source of inspiration for
managers, management consultants, scholars and students GBP/LISTGBP
Covers chaos and complexity theory, the learning organization,
system dynamics, living systems theory, soft systems methodology,
interactive management, interactive planning, total systems
intervention, autopoiesis, management cybernetics, the viable
system model, operations research (hard and soft), systems
analysis, systems engineering, general system theory,
sociotechnical systems thinking, the fifth discipline, social
systems design, team syntegrity, postmodern systems thinking,
critical systems thinking, and much more. Considers the work of
Ackoff, Banathy, Beer, Capra, Checkland, Churchman, Eden, Emery,
Flood, Forrester, Friend, Freire, Jackson, Jantsch, Linstone,
Luhmann, Mason, Maturana, Miller, Mitroff, Prigonine, Rosenhead,
Senge, Stacey, Trist, Ulrich, Varela, Vickers, von Bertalanffy,
Warfield, Wheatley, Wiener, and many more.
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