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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Plenum Pub Corp
Publication date December 1, 2000
Pages 448
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780306465000
ISBN-10 0306465000
Dimensions 1.25 by 7.50 by 10 in.
Weight 2.25 lbs.
Original list price $229.00
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Systems Thinking is a new paradigm set to revolutionize management practice in the 21st century. Systems Approaches to Management is the most comprehensive guide available to the application of this new paradigm in the field of management. It, Traces the emergence of holistic thinking in disciplines such as biology, control engineering, sociology and the natural sciences Details and provides a critique, based upon social theory, of the range of systems approaches, methodologies, models and methods Offers numerous case studies to illustrate systems thinking applied to management Introduces critical systems thinking' as a coherent framework that brings unity to the diversity of different systems approaches and advises managers, consultants, scholars and students on their use Provides an accessible source of inspiration for managers, management consultants, scholars and students £/LIST£ Covers chaos and complexity theory, the learning organization, system dynamics, living systems theory, soft systems methodology, interactive management, interactive planning, total systems intervention, autopoiesis, management cybernetics, the viable system model, operations research (hard and soft), systems analysis, systems engineering, general system theory, sociotechnical systems thinking, the fifth discipline, social systems design, team syntegrity, postmodern systems thinking, critical systems thinking, and much more. Considers the work of Ackoff, Banathy, Beer, Capra, Checkland, Churchman, Eden, Emery, Flood, Forrester, Friend, Freire, Jackson, Jantsch, Linstone, Luhmann, Mason, Maturana, Miller, Mitroff, Prigonine, Rosenhead, Senge, Stacey, Trist, Ulrich, Varela, Vickers, von Bertalanffy, Warfield, Wheatley, Wiener, and many more.

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from Plenum Pub Corp (December 1, 2000)
9780306465000 | details & prices | 448 pages | 7.50 × 10.00 × 1.25 in. | 2.25 lbs | List price $229.00
About: Systems Thinking is a new paradigm set to revolutionize management practice in the 21st century.
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from Plenum Pub Corp (December 1, 2000)
9780306465062 | details & prices | 448 pages | 7.00 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.80 lbs | List price $109.00
About: Systems Thinking is a new paradigm set to revolutionize management practice in the 21st century.

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