Systems thinking : selected readings;
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| Language: | English |
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Harmondsworth,:
Penguin,
1969..
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| Series: | Penguin modern management readings
Penguin education no. 71 |
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| Online Access: | https://books.google.com/books?id=G2tHAAAAMAAJ https://books.google.com/books?id=AdVEAAAAIAAJ |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Precendents to systems theory
- A logic of systems /
- A. Angyal
- The structure and function of organization /
- J. Feibleman and J.W. Friend
- Part II. Properties of open systems
- Closed and open systems /
- W. Koehler
- The theory of open systems in physics and biology /
- L. von Bertalanffy
- Common characteristics of open systems /
- D. Katz and R.L. Kahn
- Self-regulation and requisite variety /
- W.R. Ashby
- Certain peculiarities of organisms as a system from the point of view of physics, cybernetics, and biology /
- V.I. Kremyanskiy
- The abstract characteristics of living systems /
- G. Sommerhoff
- Part III. The environment of a system
- A tentative classification of goal-seeking behaviours /
- M.P. Schutzenberger
- Rational choice and the structure of the environment /
- H.A. Simon
- Adaptation in the multistable system /
- W.R. Ashby
- The causal texture of organizational environments /
- F.E. Emery and E.L. Trist
- Part IV. Human organizations as systems
- Foundations of the theory of organizations /
- P. Selznick
- Socio-technical systems /
- F.E. Emery and E.L. Trist
- A formalization of functionalism /
- E. Nagel
- Systems, organizations, and interdisciplinary research /
- R.L. Ackoff
- Part V. Systems management
- Economic development, research and development, policy making : some converging views /
- A.O. Hirschman and C.E. Lindblom
- The road to 1977 /
- M. Ways.