Realising System Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science Free

Management scientists who read this journal usually do so because they too are advocates of a systems approach to the problems that they encounter in their field. Systems thinking can be applied to any problem and this book illustrates this. It deals with the way in which many of the existing strategies for tackling managerial problems and also those that occur in other fields, are now classed as being realised in “systems thinking” as an established approach. It gives a very full view of the development of this way of thinking with particular concerns about the application to or action in management science. In addition to this, it makes valuable reading for systemists and cyberneticians who will then appreciate that their theories can be applied and subsumed into a science which in the past many believed had little structure and less “science”, unlike today's thinking. A useful book for all managerial scientists and also for others involved with the fields of systems, social science, philosophy and, of course the multidisciplinary studies of cybernetics.