Realising Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science [electronic resource] /
Mingers, John.author.
Deals with the contribution of a systems approach to a range of disciplines from philosophy and biology to social theory and management. This book is of interest to scholars in philosophy, biology, information systems, communications, social theory, management science and operational research as well as those in the systems community.
Description based upon print version of record.
Deals with the contribution of a systems approach to a range of disciplines from philosophy and biology to social theory and management. This book is of interest to scholars in philosophy, biology, information systems, communications, social theory, management science and operational research as well as those in the systems community.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-296) and index.
Foundations -- Philosophical Foundations: Critical Realism -- Living Systems: Autopoiesis -- Observing Systems: The Question of Boundaries -- Knowledge -- Cognising Systems: Information and Meaning -- Knowledge and Truth -- Communication and Social Interaction -- Social Systems -- Action and Intervention -- Management Science and Multimethodology -- The Process of Multimethodology -- Reprise.
Knowledge management.
Business.
Management science.
Operations research.
Decision making.
Information technology.
Business—Data processing.
Organization.
Planning.
Sociology.
Knowledge Management.
Business and Management, general.
Operations Research/Decision Theory.
IT in Business.
Organization.
Sociology, general.
Contemporary systems thinking