Systems Thinkers

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Ramage, Magnus (Συγγραφέας), Shipp, Karen (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Θέματα: Computer science.; Application software.; Computers and civilization.; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Computers and Society.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Computer Science, general.

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’s key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the relationship between their life and ideas. Thi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Early Cybernetics
• Gregory Bateson
• Norbert Wiener
• Warren McCulloch
• Margaret Mead
• W. Ross Ashby
• General Systems Theory
• Ludwig von Bertalanffy
• Kenneth Boulding
• Geoffrey Vickers
• Howard Odum
• System Dynamics
• Jay Forrester
• Donella Meadows
• Peter Senge
• Soft and Critical Systems
• C. West Churchman
• Russell Ackoff
• Peter Checkland
• Werner Ulrich
• Michael Jackson
• Later Cybernetics
• Heinz von Foerster
• Stafford Beer
• Humberto Maturana
• Niklas Luhmann
• Paul Watzlawick
• Complexity Theory
• Ilya Prigogine
• Stuart Kauffman
• James Lovelock
• Learning Systems
• Kurt Lewin
• Eric Trist
• Chris Argyris
• Donald Schön
• Mary Catherine Bateson.