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Systems Thinking: Gerald Midgley
Systems Thinking: Gerald Midgley
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Systems Thinking brings together classic and contemporary writings that cross the entire breadth of the
systems field. The four-volume set includes the most influential theoretical papers, as well as applications
in domains as diverse as global environmental modelling, business strategy, public sector planning, family
therapy and the management of organizations.
Key critiques of the leading writers allow the researcher to understand how and why paradigm breaks took
place, and to grasp the extraordinary diversification of systems theory and practice we see today.
Systems Thinking will be an essential reference for all libraries of business, management and
organization studies.
Bela H Banathy, Saybrook Institute, USA & International Systems Institute, USA
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Peter Corning, Institute for the Study of Complex Systems, USA
Wojciech Gasparski, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Jifa Gu, JAIST, Japan & Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yoshiteru Nakamori, Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan
Kurt Richardson, Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, USA
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Simanta Roy-Chowdhury, Barnet, Enfield and Harringay NHS Trust & University of East London, UK
Table Of Contents:
A A Bogdanov
L Von Bertalanffy
K Boulding
Definition of a System
J H Marchal
M Bunge
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E Laszlo
Systems Philosophy
P K M'Pherson
Explaining Emergence
J G Miller
Living Systems
Basic Concepts
L R Troncale
N Weiner
Cybernetics
C E Shannon
W R Ashby
Requisite, Variety and Its Implications for the Control of Complex Systems
G Bateson
W Weaver
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H A Simon
I Prigogine
Exploring Complexity
M Gell-Mann
T Parsons
G Bateson et al
R Swenson
H T Odum
J E Lovelock
Gaia
J W Forrester
J D W Morecroft
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Beyond the Limits
An Executive Summary
G M Jenkins
A D Hall
S Beer
F Emery
I R Hoos
A Critical Enquiry
R Lilienfeld
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G Morgan
Epistemology or Technique?
P M Allen
VOLUME THREE: SECOND ORDER CYBERNETICS, SYSTEMIC THERAPY AND SOFT SYSTEMS THINKING
H Von Foerster
E Von Glasersfeld
H Maturana
Reality
N Luhmann
R Fuenmayor
R Fuenmayor
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Paradoxes, Double Binds and Reflexive Loops
M Palazzoli et al
L Hoffman
Preliminary and Evolving Ideas about the Implications for Clinical Theory
G Vickers
C W Churchman
Assumptional Analysis
Structural Thinking
R L Ackoff
P Checkland
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From Optimizing to Learning
P M Senge
J D Sterman
J A M Vennix
The VSM
An Ongoing Conversation
VOLUME FOUR: CRITICAL SYSTEMS THINKING AND SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVES ON ETHICS, POWER AND
PLURALISM
J Mingers
W Ulrich
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Developing Housing Services for Older People
J P Van Gigch
M C Jackson
G Midgley
W J Gregory
Discordant Pluralism
N Romm
K C Bausch
R Bawden
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J D R De Raadt
An American-Chinese Case
Multimethodology
K Tomm
Interventive Interviewing
Intersecting the Ideas of Foucault with the `Problem' of Power in Family Therapy
V Goldner et al
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