Systems thinkers
This biographical history of the field of systems thinking examines the work of thirty of its major thinkers. It discusses their key contributions to the subject, the way these were expressed in practice and the relationship between their lives and ideas.
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- Full title :Systems thinkers / Magnus Ramage, Karen Shipp.
Summary
This biographical history of the field of systems thinking examines the work of thirty of its major thinkers. It discusses their key contributions to the subject, the way these were expressed in practice and the relationship between their lives and ideas.
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- Publication Date:2020.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 324 pages) : : illustrations (black and white)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781447174752, 1447174755
- oclc:on1141661363
- LC Classification:Q295
- Dewey Decimal:003
Table of Contents
Early cybernetics -- Gregory Bateson -- Norbert Wiener -- Warren McCulloch -- Margaret Mead -- W. Ross Ashby -- General systems theory -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy -- Kenneth Boulding -- Geoffrey Vickers -- Howard Odum -- System dynamics -- Jay Forrester -- Donella Meadows -- Peter Senge -- Soft and critical systems -- C. West Churchman -- Russell Ackoff -- Peter Checkland -- Werner Ulrich -- Michael Jackson -- Later cybernetics -- Heinz von Foerster -- Stafford Beer -- Humberto Maturana -- Niklas Luhmann -- Paul Watzlawick -- Complexity theory -- Ilya Prigogine -- Stuart Kauffman -- James Lovelock -- Learning systems -- Kurt Lewin -- Eric Trist -- Chris Argyris -- Donald Schön -- Mary Catherine Bateson. Afterword -- Index.
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