Context and Complexity : Cultivating Contextual Understanding /
An original view of interdisciplinary thinking and its applications is given in this book. It aims to help the reader develop a contextual way to understand and act in complex situations. The book is based on a G-type principle: heterogenetic, interactive and pattern-generating. Each chapter is not...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
1992.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | An original view of interdisciplinary thinking and its applications is given in this book. It aims to help the reader develop a contextual way to understand and act in complex situations. The book is based on a G-type principle: heterogenetic, interactive and pattern-generating. Each chapter is not only interdisciplinary, but also contextual and relational. They correspond to each of the six ways of cultivating contextual understanding. Five of the chapters give concrete examples; three of them center on examples from business management. This is because business management has become a frontier of complexity requiring contextual thinking; it is useful epistemologically to those in the humanities, social and natural sciences. The sixth chapter theoretically summarizes all the concrete examples. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 145 pages 29 illustrations) |
| ISBN: | 9781461227687 (electronic bk.) 1461227682 (electronic bk.) |