{"product_id":"systems-approaches-to-management-9780306465000","title":"Systems Approaches to Management","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael C. Jackson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Decision Making \u0026amp; Problem Solving\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSystems Thinking is a new paradigm set to revolutionize management practice in the 21st century. \u003cem\u003eSystems Approaches to Management\u003c\/em\u003e is the most comprehensive guide available to the application of this new paradigm in the field of management. It,  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003e Traces the emergence of holistic thinking in disciplines such as biology, control engineering, sociology and the natural sciences \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Details and provides a critique, based upon social theory, of the range of systems approaches, methodologies, models and methods \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Offers numerous case studies to illustrate systems thinking applied to management \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Introduces critical systems thinking' as a coherent framework that brings unity to the diversity of different systems approaches and advises managers, consultants, scholars and students on their use \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Provides an accessible source of inspiration for managers, management consultants, scholars and students  \/LIST  Covers chaos and complexity theory, the learning organization, system dynamics, living systems theory, soft systems methodology, interactive management, interactive planning, total systems intervention, autopoiesis, management cybernetics, the viable system model, operations research (hard and soft), systems analysis, systems engineering, general system theory, sociotechnical systems thinking, the fifth discipline, social systems design, team syntegrity, postmodern systems thinking, critical systems thinking, and much more.\u003cbr\u003e Considers the work of Ackoff, Banathy, Beer, Capra, Checkland, Churchman, Eden, Emery, Flood, Forrester, Friend, Freire, Jackson, Jantsch, Linstone, Luhmann, Mason, Maturana, Miller, Mitroff, Prigonine, Rosenhead, Senge, Stacey, Trist, Ulrich, Varela, Vickers, von Bertalanffy, Warfield, Wheatley, Wiener, and many more.\u003c\/li\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47591082328215,"sku":"9780306465000","price":16012.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780306465000.webp?v=1774971541","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/systems-approaches-to-management-9780306465000","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}