Systems Thinking in Europe - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 030644013X ISBN 13 : 9780306440137

Editeur : Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 1991

Synopsis

Plenary Papers.- Transformation Theory.- Systems Approach as a Style: A Hermeneutics of Systems.- Action and Structure in Problem Solving.- Implementing Total Quality Management Through Total Systems Intervention: A Creative Approach to Problem Solving in Diagnostic Biotechnology (PTE)LTD.- Five Commitments of Critical Systems Thinking.- A Scenario-Based Approach to Strategic Information Systems Planning.- Information Management.- Applications of Systems Thinking.- The Design of European Industrial Systems: A Systemic Investigation.- Modelling Medica: A Technology Transfer Systems Approach to the Evaluation of a European Community Funded Research Project in Medical Informatics.- The Social System of National Health Care and System of Human Society.- Systems Thinking in Organizational Analysis and Design.- Theories of Autonomous Systems: A Comparative Analysis.- Cybernetic Aspects of Management Systems Engineering.- Systems Evolution in Modern Systems Research and a Formal Model for Evolving Systems.- Organizational Closure and the Quantum View of Organizations.- Landscape Ecology as an Operational Framework for Environmental GIS: Zdarske Vrchy, Czechoslovakia.- Introducing Geographical Information Systems into British Local Government: Developments in Kirklees Metropolitan District.- Taking Systems Thinking into Schools.- Health and Safety Legislation - Threat or Opportunity?.- Examination of the Concept of 'Key Factor for Success' from a Systems Thinking Perspective.- A Systematic Approach to Learning from Past Experiences in a Diagnostic Problem-Solving Environment.- Interdisciplinarity and Self-Organization in Computational Neuroepistemology: An Alternative Methodological Approach to Cognitive Science.- Systems Thinking in Poland.- Old Confusion in New European Systems Thinking.- A Unified Systems Hypothesis.- Applications of Methodology (Both Hard and Soft).- Systems Thinking and Investigation of Digestive Secretion.- Variable Receptive Field System Transformation and its Applications to Visual Field.- An Experimental Approach to the Description of Contour Segments Using the Fourier-Bessell Transform.- Self-Organization in Rural Economic System.- A System Dynamics Approach to Assessing the Impact of Management Information Systems.- Stella Modelling Process for a Manpower Strategy.- An Urbanistic Project Based on General Systems Theory.- Analysis and Design of Socio-Economic Systems.- Are all Failures Systems Failures?.- Use of the VSM to Assist in the Establishment of an Engineering Consortium.- How Can We Use a "Hard" Method in a "Soft" Way? Lessons Learnt from Cases using "Rating Chart Methods".- Untangling the Perception Web: A Methodology.- Untangling the Perception Web: An Application.- Systems Practice: An Application of "Soft" Systems Thinking in the Context of IS Planning for Small Business.- Soft Systems in Software Design.- A First Step Towards the Automation of SSM?.- The Need for Tool Support for Soft Systems.- Tools Supporting Soft Systems.- Problem Structuring and Critical Systems Thinking.- A Generic Model for Scenario Analysis and Modelling.- A Problem Structuring Method.- Levels of Problem Structuring and Problem Definitions.- A Multiple Criteria Approach to Complex Situations.- The Role of the Analyst and the Choice of Methodology.- The Use of Social Paradigms in the Analysis of Team Behaviour During Organizational Change.- A Brief Introduction to Complementarism.- Participatory Research: An Emancipatory Methodology for Systems Practice.- The Sacred and Profane in Critical Systems Thinking.- Critical Systems Thinking: Real Fiction?.- The Critical Systems Methodologies and the "Truth of Invariability".- Interpretive Critical Ideologies for Research Methodologies.- Community Operational Research and the New Public Health Movement.- Which Evaluation Methodology When? A Contingency Approach to Evaluation.- The Systematization of Practice.- Timeo Danaos et Dona Ferentes: A Philosophical-Cum-Epistemological ...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 030644013X
• ISBN 13: 9780306440137
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 602
• Éditeur: Blackham R. B., Flood Robert Louis, Jackson M.C., Mansell G. J., Probert S. V. E.
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