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Systems Approaches to Management (Hardcover, 2000 ed.) Loot Price: R5,958
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Systems Approaches to Management (Hardcover, 2000 ed.): Michael C. Jackson

Systems Approaches to Management (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)

Michael C. Jackson

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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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Imprint: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2000
First published: 2000
Authors: Michael C. Jackson
Dimensions: 254 x 178 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 452
Edition: 2000 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-306-46500-0
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business strategy
Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > General
LSN: 0-306-46500-0
Barcode: 9780306465000

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