02498nam a2200325Ia 4500 0000008274 20251012174504.0 700409s1969 enka b 001 0 eng 0140800719 9780140800715 Q295 .E45 001.5/3/08 Systems thinking: selected readings; edited by F. E. Emery. Harmondsworth, Penguin 1969. 398 p illus 18 cm. Includes bibliographies. Part I. Precendents to systems theory -- A logic of systems / A. Angyal -- The structure and function of organization / J. Feibleman and J.W. Friend -- Part II. Properties of open systems -- Closed and open systems / W. Koehler -- The theory o f open systems in physics and biology / L. von Bertalanffy -- Common characteristics of open systems / D. Katz and R.L. Kahn -- Self-regulation and requisite variety / W.R. Ashby -- Certain peculiarities of organisms as a system from the point of view of physics, cybernetics, and biology / V.I. Kremyanskiy -- The abstract characteristics of living systems / G. Sommerhoff -- Part III. The environment of a system -- A tentative classification of goal-seeking behaviours / M.P. Schutzenberger -- Rational choice and the structure of the environment / H.A. Simon -- Adaptation in the multistable system / W.R. Ashby -- The causal texture of organizational environments / F.E. Emery and E.L. Trist -- Part IV. Human organizations as systems -- Foundations of the theory of organizations / P. Selznick -- Socio-technical systems / F.E. Emery and E.L. Trist -- A formalization of functionalism / E. Nagel -- Systems, organizations, and interdisciplinary research / R.L. Ackoff -- Part V. Systems management -- Economic development, research and development, policy making : some converging views / A.O. Hirschman and C.E. Lindblom -- The road to 1977 / M. Ways. Describes a way of looking at phenomena from biolocgical systems to social systems. Also issued online. System analysis. Ciencias sociales Investigaciâon Metodologâia. Organisation. Syst?emes, Analyse de. Syst?emes, Thâeorie des. Syst?emes, Analyse de. ram Management. gtt Organisatietheorie. gtt Systeemtheorie. gtt System analysis Addresses, essays, lectures 4574 4574