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Systems Approaches to Management
Systems Approaches to Management
Author: Michael C. Jackson
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, con...  more »
  • 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 £/LIST£ 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.
    • ISBN-13: 9780306465062
    ISBN-10: 030646506X
    Publication Date: 11/30/2000
    Pages: 465
    Edition: 1
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    Publisher: Springer
    Book Type: Paperback
    Other Versions: Hardcover
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