Systems thinking: selected readings;
edited by F. E. Emery.
- Harmondsworth, Penguin 1969.
- 398 p illus 18 cm.
Includes bibliographies.
A logic of systems / The structure and function of organization / Closed and open systems / The theory o f open systems in physics and biology / Common characteristics of open systems / Self-regulation and requisite variety / Certain peculiarities of organisms as a system from the point of view of physics, cybernetics, and biology / The abstract characteristics of living systems / A tentative classification of goal-seeking behaviours / Rational choice and the structure of the environment / Adaptation in the multistable system / The causal texture of organizational environments / Foundations of the theory of organizations / Socio-technical systems / A formalization of functionalism / Systems, organizations, and interdisciplinary research / Economic development, research and development, policy making : some converging views / The road to 1977 / A. Angyal -- J. Feibleman and J.W. Friend -- W. Koehler -- L. von Bertalanffy -- D. Katz and R.L. Kahn -- W.R. Ashby -- V.I. Kremyanskiy -- G. Sommerhoff -- M.P. Schutzenberger -- H.A. Simon -- W.R. Ashby -- F.E. Emery and E.L. Trist -- P. Selznick -- F.E. Emery and E.L. Trist -- E. Nagel -- R.L. Ackoff -- A.O. Hirschman and C.E. Lindblom -- M. Ways. Part I. Precendents to systems theory -- Part II. Properties of open systems -- Part III. The environment of a system -- Part IV. Human organizations as systems -- Part V. Systems management --
Describes a way of looking at phenomena from biolocgical systems to social systems.
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System analysis. Ciencias sociales--Investigaciâon--Metodologâia. Organisation. Syst?emes, Analyse de. Syst?emes, Thâeorie des. Syst?emes, Analyse de. Management. Organisatietheorie. Systeemtheorie.