This four volume set brings together classic and contemporary writings that cross the entire breadth of the systems field. ... see flyer.
Systemic Intervention: Philosophy, Methodology and Practice
Contemporary Systems Thinking Gerald Midgley, 2000 Kluwer Academic / Plenum ISBN: 0306464888
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Rethinks systemic intervention to enhance its relevance for supporting social change in the 21st-century. Arguments are provided for why philosophy, methodology and practice all have a role to play in our thinking about systemic intervention. ... see flyer.
Systems Approaches to Management
Michael Jackson, 2000 Kluwer Academic / Plenum ISBN: 030646506X
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Provides a guide to the application of the Systems Thinking paradigm in the field of management. ... see flyer.
Guided Evolution of Society
A Systems View Bela H. Banathy, 2000 Kluwer Academic / Plenum ISBN: 0306463822
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A comprehensive review of human and societal evolution, this work develops an approach to conscious, self-guided evolution. ... see flyer.
The Emerging Consensus in Social Systems Theory
Kenneth C. Baush, 2001 Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers ISBN: 0306465396
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Summarises the works of over 30 major systemic theorists, this text goes on to show the converging areas of consensus among these out-standing thinkers. It categorizes the social aspects of current systemic thinking (in 2001) as falling into five broadly thematic areas: designing social systems, the structure of the social world, communication, cognition and epistemology. ... see flyer.
Systems Thinking, Systems Practice
Includes a 30-Year Retrospective Peter Checkland, 1999 Wiley Europe ISBN: 0471986062
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This work established the now accepted distinction between 'hard' systems thinking, in which parts of the world are taken to be 'systems' which can be 'engineered', and 'soft' systems thinking in which the focus is on making sure the process of inquiry into real-world complexity is itself a system for learning. A classic text in Systems Thinking.