TY  - BOOK
TI  - Systems thinking: selected readings
SN  - 0140800719
AV  - Q295 .E45
PY  - 1969///.
CY  - Harmondsworth
PB  - Penguin
KW  - System analysis
KW  - Ciencias sociales
KW  - Investigaciâon
KW  - Metodologâia
KW  - Organisation
KW  - Syst?emes, Analyse de
KW  - Syst?emes, Thâeorie des
KW  - ram
KW  - Management
KW  - gtt
KW  - Organisatietheorie
KW  - Systeemtheorie
KW  - Addresses, essays, lectures
N1  - 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; Also issued online
N2  - Describes a way of looking at phenomena from biolocgical systems to social systems.
ER  -