Realising Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science

• Main Author: Mingers, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Contemporary Systems Thinking,
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Knowledge management.; Organization.; Planning.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Sociology.; Business and Management.; Knowledge Management.; Business and Management, general.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; IT in Business.; Sociology, general.

Table of Contents:

• 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.