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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Critical Systems Thinking
    sub title: Current Research and Practice
  name:
    name part: Flood, Robert L.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Romm, Norma R. A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 301 p. online resource.
  abstract: This volume offers comprehensive treatment of the latest developments in critical systems thinking and practice. The book features contributions by researchers at the prestigious Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull, England. The emphasis is on rigorous analysis of the wide range of approaches to problem solving reported in the research literature. This work will enhance the studies of researchers and students in the areas of systems problem solving, action research, management science, and operational research.
  table of contents: Theory -- What Is This Thing Called CST? -- The Ideal of Unity and the Practice of Pluralism in Systems Science -- Dealing with Diversity -- A Foucauldian Reflection on Critical Systems Thinking -- Diversity Management -- Methodology -- Total Systems Intervention -- TSI as Critique -- Critical Creativity and Total Systems Intervention -- Critical Systems Thinking for Citizens -- Systems Methodologies and Intervention -- A Framework for Assessing Participation -- Practice -- TSI in North Yorkshire Police -- Two Perspectives in a Voluntary Organization -- Reflections on an Action Research Project -- Economic Recession and Self-Deceptions -- Conclusion Preserving a Taste for Research and Practice without Recipes.
  note: edited by Robert L. Flood, Norma R. A. Romm.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Management science
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management, general
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  classification: HF4999.2-6182
  classification: HD28-70
  classification: 650
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780585346519
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b102400
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