Systems Thinkers

• Main Authors: Ramage, Magnus. (Author), Shipp, Karen. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Economics.; Information Systems.; Animal behavior.; Environmental law.; Social sciences > Methodology.; Economics/Management Science.; Behavioural Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-525-3

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.