Systems Thinkers /

In our profoundly complex and interconnected world, there is a pressing need for systems thinking, to consider environmental, societal and organisational issues as interconnected wholes rather than separating them into parts and looking at each in isolation. This book presents a biographical history...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Ramage, Magnus (Author), Shipp, Karen (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Edition:	2nd ed. 2020.
Subjects:	Management information systems. Computer science. Application software. Management of Computing and Information Systems. Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.