Systems Thinkers

Systems Thinkers presents a biographical history of the field of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. It discusses each thinker<U+0019>s key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the relationship between their life a...

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Main Authors: Ramage, Magnus. (Author), Shipp, Karen. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-525-3
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505 0 # |a Introduction -- Gregory Bateson -- Norbert Wiener -- Warren McCulloch -- Margaret Mead -- W. Ross Ashby -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy -- Kenneth Boulding -- Geoffrey Vickers -- Howard Odum -- Jay Forrester -- Donella Meadows -- Peter Senge -- C. West Churchman -- Russell Ackoff -- Peter Checkland -- Werner Ulrich -- Michael Jackson -- Heinz von Foerster -- Stafford Beer -- Humberto Maturana -- Niklas Luhmann -- Paul Watzlawick -- Ilya Prigogine -- Stuart Kauffman -- James Lovelock -- Kurt Lewin -- Eric Trist -- Chris Argyris -- Donald Schn̲ -- Mary Catherine Bateson -- Afterword. 
520 # # |a Systems Thinkers presents a biographical history of the field of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. It discusses each thinker<U+0019>s key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the relationship between their life and ideas. This discussion is supported by an extract from the thinker<U+0019>s own writing, to give a flavour of their work and to give readers a sense of which thinkers are most relevant to their own interests. Systems thinking is necessarily interdisciplinary, so that the thinkers selected come from a wide range of areas <U+0013> biology, management, physiology, anthropology, chemistry, public policy, sociology and environmental studies among others. Some are core innovators in systems ideas; some have been primarily practitioners who also advanced and popularised systems ideas; others are well-known figures who drew heavily upon systems thinking although it was not their primary discipline. A significant aim of the book is to broaden and deepen the reader<U+0019>s interest in systems writers, providing an appetising <U+0018>taster<U+0019> for each of the 30 thinkers, so that the reader is encouraged to go on to study the published works of the thinkers themselves. 
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