Managing Complexity in Social Systems: Leverage Points for Policy and Strategy

by Christoph E Mandl

Why do policies and strategies often fail, and what can be done about it? How can complexity be managed in cases where it cannot be reduced? The answers to these questions are anything but trivial, and can only be found by combining insights from complexity science, system dynamics, system theory and systems thinking. Rooted in the seminal works of Gregory Bateson, Jay Forrester, Donella Meadows, Peter Senge, W. Brian Arthur, John Sterman and Thomas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030016439
• ISBN13: 9783030016432
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"