TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mingers,John
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Realising Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science
T2  - Contemporary Systems Thinking,
SN  - 9780387298412
U1  - 650 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Springer US
KW  - ECONOMICS
KW  - BUSINESS PLANNING
KW  - MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
KW  - SOCIOLOGY
KW  - ECONOMICS/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
KW  - MANAGEMENT
KW  - BUSINESS/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, GENERAL
KW  - OPERATIONS RESEARCH/DECISION THEORY
KW  - BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS
KW  - ORGANIZATION/PLANNING
N1  - 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
N2  - This wide-ranging book deals, in a detailed and scholarly way, with the contribution of a systems approach to a range of disciplines from philosophy and biology to social theory and management. It weaves together material from some of the pre-eminent thinkers of the day - Maturana, Varela, Bateson, Merleau-Ponty, Checkland, Giddens, Habermas, Bhaskar, and Luhmann - to create a coherent path from the most fundamental work on philosophical issues of ontology and epistemology through specific domains of knowledge about the nature of information and meaning, human communication, and social intervention right up to the implications of these theoretical developments for action and intervention in real-world affairs. It will be of interest to scholars in philosophy, biology, information systems, communications, social theory, management science and operational research as well as everyone in the systems community
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29841-X
ER  -