Realising Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science

by John Mingers

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441939296
• ISBN13: 9781441939296
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"