Realising Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science (Contemporary Systems Thinking)

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 312
Publication Date: 2006-06-02
Sales Rank: 658779
ISBN / ASIN: 0387281886
EAN: 9780387281889
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer

Book Description:

This wide-ranging book deals, in a detailed and scholarly way, with the contribution of a systems approach to a range of disciplines from philosophy and biology to social theory and management. It weaves together material from some of the pre-eminent thinkers of the day — Maturana, Varela, Bateson, Merleau-Ponty, Checkland, Giddens, Habermas, Bhaskar, and Luhmann — to create a coherent path from the most fundamental work on freeduan.com philosophical issues of ontology and epistemology through specific domains of knowledge about the nature of information and meaning, human communication, and social intervention right up to the implications of these theoretical developments for action and intervention in real-world affairs.It will be of interest to scholars in philosophy, biology, information systems, communications, social theory, management science and operational research as well as everyone in the systems community.