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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Systems Science — Addressing Global issues
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    Chapter 2 Systems Science
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    Chapter 3 The Actor as a Perfect Citizen
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    Chapter 4 Information Systems and Systems Science
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    Chapter 5 Engineering Systems
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    Chapter 6 Giving Requisite Variety to Strategy and Information Systems
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    Chapter 7 United Kingdom Higher Education — A Systems Failure?
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    Chapter 8 Systems Practitioners: Facilitators of the Bringing — Forth of Social Systems
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    Chapter 9 A Theoretical Framework for an Interpretive-Systemic Study of Public Health Services in Venezuela
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    Chapter 10 Introduction to Business Systems Stream
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    Chapter 11 Metagame Analysis as a Tool for Longitudinal Analysis of Multi-Actorial Decision Processes
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    Chapter 12 Cultural Contradictions Impeding Global Competitiveness of American High-Technology Firms
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    Chapter 13 Systems Methodologies and Enabling Technologies: A Role for Group Support Systems?
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    Chapter 14 The Evaluation of It Investment
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    Chapter 15 Heuristic Methods as an Instrument to Develop a Manager
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    Chapter 16 Suprahuman Systems and Management: Steering in Jeopardy?
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    Chapter 17 Using an Organisation Wide Consultation Approach for the Creation of Information and Information Technology Strategies
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    Chapter 18 Introduction to Complex Systems Stream
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    Chapter 19 Systems Synthesis
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    Chapter 20 Mapping Conceptual Models on to the Real World
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    Chapter 21 Systems Modelling with Natural Language and Fuzzy Logic
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    Chapter 22 Introduction to Critical Systems Stream
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    Chapter 23 Practising Freedom
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    Chapter 24 Ecology and Evaluation: The Macro-Quality Perspective
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    Chapter 25 ‘Non-Traditional’ Logistics — A Step Forward?
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    Chapter 26 Critical Systems Thinking, Post-Modernism and the Philosophy of Richard Rorty
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    Chapter 27 Introduction to Cybernetics Stream
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    Chapter 28 Nonlinear Dynamics and Fire Risk Assessment
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    Chapter 29 A Cybernetic View of Quality Management
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    Chapter 30 Innofusion: Feedback in the Innovation Process
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    Chapter 31 Organizational Cybernetics
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    Chapter 32 Moving Management Around the Organisation or How to Make Jobs for the Boys
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    Chapter 33 Cybernetics and the Social: Conversations with Unspeakable Machines
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    Chapter 34 Linking SSM with VSM for Information System Management
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    Chapter 35 Cybernetics in Management
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    Chapter 36 A Workshop Methodology Based on the “Viable System Model” Of Stafford Beer
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    Chapter 37 Introduction to Educational Systems Stream
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    Chapter 38 Reading as a Complex Phenomenon
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    Chapter 39 Design of Vocational Education Systems: A Systems Science Contribution to the “Competences” Debates
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    Chapter 40 Designing an MBA Curriculum for Information Systems Managers: An Analysis of Contextual Factors
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    Chapter 41 Theseus — A Model for Global Connectivity
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    Chapter 42 Problem-Solving Skills within the Curriculum: A Case for a “Softer” Approach
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    Chapter 43 Creativity and Science Ecology of Mind: The Future Sight of Science has Begun
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    Chapter 44 Sport Training as an Open System
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    Chapter 45 Introducing Systems Thinking into Mathematics Learning
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    Chapter 46 Systems Education: is there a Mass Delivery Approach?
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    Chapter 47 Computer-Based Methods of Knowledge Acquisition and Elicitation in Terms of the Subjective Representation and Teaching of Complex Domains
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    Chapter 48 Developments in the Automation of SSM Tutorials Using Multimedia Technology
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    Chapter 49 Introduction to Environmental Systems, Social Systems and Health Systems Streams
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    Chapter 50 Systems Science and the Alternatives to the Changes of Soil in Areas of Traditional Agriculture
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    Chapter 51 A Systems Approach to Environmental Management
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    Chapter 52 A Systems Approach to Social Innovation
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    Chapter 53 Automation Technology as a Human Tool for Accomplishing Human Purposes
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    Chapter 54 Health for All and Community Participation
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    Chapter 55 Introduction to Information Systems Stream
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    Chapter 56 On the Incommensurability of Hard and Soft Systems Approaches to Information Systems Provision
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    Chapter 57 Knowledge Elicitation: First Step Towards Managing Floating Information in Financial Sectors
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    Chapter 58 Information Requirements: A Systems and Knowledge Based Approach
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    Chapter 59 They Shoot Werewolves, Don’t They?
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    Chapter 60 Function-Oriented Data Modelling
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    Chapter 61 Conceptual Modelling and DBS/KBS Design
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    Chapter 62 The Algorithmic Nature of Problem Solving
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    Chapter 63 Syntax and Semantic Analysis of Mission Statements
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    Chapter 64 Sublimating Methodologies: The Fallacy of ’ the Right Thing Right’?
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    Chapter 65 Application-Oriented Tools for Software Development
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    Chapter 66 How to Deal with Wicked Problems Using a New Type of Information System
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    Chapter 67 Metaphorical Thinking and Information Systems: The Example of the Mechanistic Metaphor
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    Chapter 68 Improving the Impact of Systems Thinking on Information Systems Development
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    Chapter 69 Towards a Multimedia Based New Information Concept
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    Chapter 70 Towards an Interpretative Form of Data Analysis for the Soft Systems Methodology
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    Chapter 71 Intelligent Assistance in the Information Systems Design Process
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    Chapter 72 Information Systems Development Systems: What Gives?
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    Chapter 73 A Strategy of Engagement: Knowledge Elicitation for Augmentative Systems Development
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    Chapter 74 Managing is in Global Companies
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    Chapter 75 Kaizen: The Japanese Approach to I.T.
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    Chapter 76 Interpretive Analytics and Critical Information Systems: A Framework for Analysis
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    Chapter 77 Software Quality — Can We Really Afford it?
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    Chapter 78 Accessibility and Utilisation of Organisations Newest Asset: Information
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    Chapter 79 Applying Soft and Hard Systems Approaches to a Technical Problem
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    Chapter 80 Linguistic Categories in Knowledge Based Systems
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    Chapter 81 Enterprise Design — A Total Systems Approach to Information Systems Development?
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    Chapter 82 The Role of Active Information Systems in Creating and Sustaining a Learning Organisation
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    Chapter 83 User Considerations in Communicating Information Technology Security Requirements
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    Chapter 84 Resource Object Data Manager: Structured Approach to Systems and Network Management
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    Chapter 85 Information Systems Development Education: Assumptions and Practice
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    Chapter 86 User Satisfaction as a Measure of Information System Effectiveness
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    Chapter 87 Application of Information Technology in Small Business in Slovenia
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    Chapter 88 End-User Computing Environment: A Case Study
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    Chapter 89 Introduction to Manufacturing Systems Stream
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    Chapter 90 Symbolic Manipulation CAD for Parameterized Families of Systems
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    Chapter 91 Support Systems for Total Quality
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    Chapter 92 Production and Information in Systems
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    Chapter 93 Systems Design and Concurrent Engineering — An Organisational Perspective
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    Chapter 94 Introduction to Strategic is and Systems Methodologies
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    Chapter 95 Some Areas of Economic Theory Viewed Systemically
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    Chapter 96 “Am I Using a Systems Approach?” — A Framework for Response
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    Chapter 97 Experience of Teaching the Systems-Based Methodology of Interactive Management
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    Chapter 98 A Contingency Approach for the Selection of a Research Methodology (RM)
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    Chapter 99 Vulnerable Systems, Failure and Disaster
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    Chapter 100 The Systems Law of Ordinary People
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    Chapter 101 New Directions in the Use of Structured Tools in Requirements Engineering at Glasgow Polytechnic
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    Chapter 102 Towards the Case for More Deliberate Strategic is
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    Chapter 103 Macrame, a Tool to Support the Analyst in Organization
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    Chapter 104 Business and Academic Collaboration in a Systems Project
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    Chapter 105 Integrating Scientific Disciplines: An Evergreen Challenge to Systems Science
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    Chapter 106 A Surprising Union? — Soft Systems Analysis and Sociometry
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    Chapter 107 Organisations without “System”: Working with Holons Against Universality?
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    Chapter 108 Hermeneutic Approaches to Learning Methodology
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    Chapter 109 The Changing Role of System Dynamics
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    Chapter 110 Information Systems in Support of Resource Management in the Community
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    Chapter 111 Introduction to Theory and Concepts Stream
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    Chapter 112 Self-Referential Systems Theory: A Discussion of Some Theoretical Developments
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    Chapter 113 Desirability and Feasibility of Linking’ Soft’ Systems Methodology [SSM] with Structured Methodologies
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    Chapter 114 System Science: A New Imperialism?
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    Chapter 115 Metaphors as seen by a Knowledge Elicitor
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Title
Systems Science
Published by
Springer US, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-2862-3
ISBNs
978-1-4613-6240-1, 978-1-4615-2862-3
Editors

Stowell, Frank A., West, Daune, Howell, James G.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 3 50%
Researcher 2 33%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 2 33%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 33%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 17%
Social Sciences 1 17%