Michael C. Jackson

Systems Methodology for the Management Sciences

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The author thoroughly describes and analyzes the most significant systems methodologies-`organizations as systems,' hard, soft, cybernetic, and critical-and demonstrates the complementary strengths of different systems approaches.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Systems Thinking
• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-306-43877-6
• 1991
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 1810g
• ISBN-13: 9780306438776
• ISBN-10: 0306438771
• Artikelnr.: 21719390

Inhaltsangabe

I. Overviews.- 1. The Structure of the Argument.- 2. Theoretical Considerations.- II. Methodological Approaches.- 3. Organizations as Systems.- 4. Hard Systems Thinking.- 5. Organizational Cybernetics.- 6. Soft Systems Thinking.- 7. Critical Systems Thinking.- III. Practical Applications.- 8. Illustrative Case Studies.- 9. Community Operational Research.- IV. Future Prospects.- 10. An Argument for Complementarism.- 11. Creative Problem Solving: Total Systems Intervention.- 12. Conclusion.- References.