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Systems Thinking brings together classic and contemporary writings that cross the entire breadth of the systems field. The four-volume set includes the most influential theoretical papers, as well as applications in domains as diverse as global environmental modelling, business strategy, public sector planning, family therapy and the management of organizations.

Key critiques of the leading writers allow the researcher to understand how and why paradigm breaks took place, and to grasp the extraordinary diversification of systems theory and practice we see today.

Systems Thinking will be an essential reference for all libraries of business, management and organization studies.

International Advisory Board

Peter Allen, Cranfield University, UK

Bela H Banathy, Saybrook Institute, USA & International Systems Institute, USA

Kenneth Bausch, Institute for 21st Century Agoras, USA

Richard Bawden, Michigan State University, USA

SA¸ren Brier, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark

David Campbell, Tavistock Clinic, UK

Fritjof Capra, Center for Ecoliteracy, USA

Peter Checkland, Lancaster University, UK

JosAⓒ CA³rdoba, University of Hull, UK

Peter Corning, Institute for the Study of Complex Systems, USA

Donald de Raadt, LuleA￥ University, Sweden

Eric Dent, University of Maryland, University College, USA

Peter Dudley, Integra Management Systems Ltd., UK

Robert Flood, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Joyce Fortune, Open University, UK

Wojciech Gasparski, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Wendy Gregory, University of Hull, UK

Jifa Gu, JAIST, Japan & Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Enrique Herrscher, IDEA, Argentina

Kristo Ivanov, Umea University, Sweden

Mike Jackson, University of Hull, UK

James Kay, University of Waterloo, Canada

Lisl Klein, Bayswater Institute, UK

George Klir, Binghampton University, USA

Ervin Laszlo, Club of Budapest, Hungary

Harold Linstone, Portland State University, USA

Sid Luckett, University of Natal, South Africa

Gianfranco Minati, Italian Systems Society, Italy

John Mingers, Warwick University, UK

Heiner M ller Merbach, UniversitA¤t Kaiserslautern, Germany

P N Murthy, Tata Consultancy Services, India

Yoshiteru Nakamori, Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan

Harold Nelson, Advance Design Institute, Seattle, USA

Roger Packham, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Yong Pil Rhee, Seoul National University, South Korea

Kurt Richardson, Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, USA

Fenton Robb, Independent Author, UK

Ricardo RodrA­guez-Ulloa, Instituto Andino de Sistemas, Peru

Simanta Roy-Chowdhury, Barnet, Enfield and Harringay NHS Trust & University of East London, UK

John Sterman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Sytse Strijbos, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Stuart Umpleby, George Washington University, USA

John Van Gigch, California State University, USA

John Warfield, George Mason University, USA

Jennifer Wilby, The University of York, UK

Eric Wolstenholme, Cognitus Ltd., UK

Maurice Yolles, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

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[Volume. VOLUME Ⅰ GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY, CYBERNETICS AND COMPLEXITY]----------
CONTENTS
Appendix of Sources = xi
Systems Thinking : An Introduction and Overview / Gerald Midgley = xvii
1. The Historical Necessity and Scientific Feasibility of Tektology / Alexander Bogdanov = 1
2. General System Theory / Ludwig von Bertalanffy = 36
3. General System Theory - The Skeleton of Science / Kenneth E. Boulding = 52
4. Definition of System / A. D. Hall ; R. E. Fagen = 63
5. On the Concept of a System / J. H. Marchal = 83
6. General Systems and Holism / Mario Bunge = 103
7. Systems Philosophy / Ervin Lazlo = 110
8. A Perspective on Systems Science and Systems Philosophy / P. K. M'Pherson = 119
9. Explaining Emergence : Towards an Ontology of Levels / Claus Emmeche ; Simo Køppe ; Frederik Stjernfelt = 141
10. Living Systems : Basic Concepts / James G. Miller = 171
11. The Future of General Systems Research : Obstacles, Potentials, Case Studies / L. Raphael Troncale = 231
12. Cybernetics / Norbert Wiener = 297
13. A Mathematical Theory of Communication / C. E. Shannon = 310
14. Requisite Variety and its Implications for the Control of Complex Systems / W. Ross Ashby = 352
15. Form, Substance, and Difference / Gregory Bateson = 365
16. Science and Complexity / Warren Weaver = 377
17. The Architecture of Complexity / Herbert A. Simon = 386
18. Exploring Complexity / Ilya Prigogine = 409
19. Complex Adaptive Systems / Murray Gell-Mann = 418
[Volume. VOLUME Ⅱ SYSTEMS THEORIES AND MODELLING]----------
CONTENTS
20. Evolutionary Universals in Society / Talcott Parsons = 1
21. Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia / Gregory Bateson ; Don D. Jackson ; Jay Haley ; John Weakland = 25
22. Emergent Attractors and the Law of Maximum Entropy Production : Foundations to a Theory of General Evolution / Rod Swenson = 43
23. Self-Organization, Transformity, and Information / Howard T. Odum = 62
24. Gaia / J. E. Lovelock = 81
25. Counterintuitive Behavior of Social Systems / Jay W. Forrester = 94
26. Rationality in the Analysis of Behavioral Simulation Models / John D. W. Morecroft = 119
27. Beyond the Limits : An Executive Summary / D. H. Meadows ; D. L. Meadows ; J. Randers = 139
28. General Systems Theory : Applications for Organization and Management / Fremont E. Kast ; James E. Rosenzweig = 157
29. The Systems Approach / Gwilym M. Jenkins = 175
30. Three-Dimensional Morphology of Systems Engineering / Arthur D. Hall, Ⅲ = 232
31. The Context, Nature, and Use of Systems Analysis / Edward S. Quade ; Hugh J. Miser = 241
32. The Viable System Model : Its Provenance, Development, Methodology and Pathology / Stafford Beer = 270
33. Characteristics of Socio-Technical Systems / Fred Emery = 293
34. The Formal System Paradigm for Studying Failures / Joyce Fortune ; Geoff Peters = 319
35. Engineers as Analysts of Social Systems : A Critical Enquiry / Ida R. Hoos = 327
36. Systems Theory as an Ideology / Robert Lilienfeld = 338
37. Cybernetics and Organization Theory : Epistemology or Technique? / Gareth Morgan = 353
38. Dynamic Models of Evolving Systems / Peter M. Allen = 367
[Volume. VOLUME Ⅲ SECOND ORDER CYBERNETICS, SYSTEMIC THERAPY AND SOFT SYSTEMS THINKING]----------
CONTENTS
39. Cybernetics of Cybernetics / Heinz von Foerster = 1
40. Reconstructing the Concept of Knowledge / Ernst von Glasersfeld = 5
41. Reality : The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument / Humberto R. Maturana = 14
42. The Autopoiesis of Social Systems / Niklas Luhmann = 65
43. The Roots of Reductionism : A Counter-Ontoepistemology for a Systems Approach / Rams$$\acute e$$s Fuenmayor = 80
44. The Self-Referential Structure of an Everyday-Living Situation : A Phenomenological Ontology for Interpretive Systemology / Rams$$\acute e$$s Fuenmayor = 105
45. Paradoxes, Double Binds, and Reflexive Loops : An Alternative Theoretical Perspective / Vernon E. Cronen ; Kenneth M. Johnson ; John W. Lannamann = 126
46. Hypothesizing - Circularity - Neutrality : Three Guidelines for the Conductor of the Session / Mara Palazzoli Selvini ; Luigi Boscolo ; Gianfranco Cecchin ; Giuliana Prata = 151
47. A constructivist Position for Family Therapy / Lynn Hoffman = 163
48. Human Systems as Linguistic Systems : Preliminary and Evolving Ideas about the Implications for Clinical Theory / Harlene Anderson ; Harold A. Goolishian = 181
49. Human Systems are Different / Geoffrey Vickers = 206
50. Operations Research as a Profession / C. West Churchman = 218
51. Assumptional Analysis : A Methodology for Strategic Problem Solving / Ian I. Mitroff ; James R. Emshoff ; Ralph H. Kilmann = 237
52. Structural Thinking : Organizing Complexity through Disciplined Activity / John N. Warfield ; Scott M. Staley = 250
53. Resurrecting the Future of Operational Research / Russell L. Ackoff = 277
54. From Optimizing to Learning : A Development of Systems Thinking for the 1990s / Peter Checkland = 290
55. The Leader's New Work : Building Learning Organizations / Peter M. Senge = 304
56. Learning in and about Complex Systems / John D. Sterman = 330
57. Group Model Building : Tackling Messy Problems / Jac A. M. Vennix = 365
58. The VSM : An Ongoing Conversation / Raul Espejo ; Roger J. Harnden = 384
[Volume. VOLUME Ⅳ CRITICAL SYSTEMS THINKING AND SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVES ON ETHICS, POWER AND PLURALISM]----------
CONTENTS
59. Towards an Appropriate Social Theory for Applied Systems Thinking : Critical Theory and Soft Systems Methodology / J. C. Mingers = 1
60. Critical Heuristics of Social Systems Design / Werner Ulrich = 14
61. The Theory and Practice of Boundary Critique : Developing Housing Services for Older People / G. Midgley ; I. Munlo ; M. Brown = 25
62. A Methodological Comparison of the Science, Systems and Metasystem Paradigms / John P. van Gigch = 44
63. Towards a System of Systems Methodologies / M. C. Jackson ; P. Keys = 59
64. The Origins and Nature of Critical Systems Thinking / M. C. Jackson = 77
65. Total Systems Intervention : A Practical Face to Critical Systems Thinking / R. L. Flood ; M. C. Jackson = 93
66. What is this Thing called CST? / Gerald Midgley = 108
67. Discordant Pluralism : A New Strategy for Critical Systems Thinking / Wendy J. Gregory = 123
68. Inquiry-and-Intervention in Systems Planning : Probing Methodological Rationalities / Norma Romm = 143
69. The Habermas／Luhmann Debate and Subsequent Habermasian Perspectives on Systems Theory / Kenneth C. Bausch = 154
70. Valuing the Epistemic in the Search for Betterment : The Nature and Role of Critical Learning Systems / Richard Bawden = 175
71. Multi-modal Systems Design : A Concern for the Issues that Matter / J. D. R. De Raadt = 196
72. Towards Synergy in Multiperspective Management : An American-Chinese Case / Harold A. Linstone ; Zhichang Zhu = 209
73. Multimethodology : Towards a Framework for Mixing Methodologies / John Mingers ; John Brocklesby = 227
74. Interventive Interviewing : Part Ⅲ. Intending to Ask Lineal, Circular, Strategic, or Reflexive Questions? / Karl Tomm = 254
75. Theorizing about Power : Intersecting the Ideas of Foucault with the "Problem" of Power in Family Therapy / Carmel Flaskas ; Catherine Humphreys = 270
76. Love and Violence : Gender Paradoxes in Volatile Attachments / Virginia Goldner ; Peggy Penn ; Marcia Sheinberg ; Gillian Walker = 283