Systems Theory and Practice in the Knowledge Age

Table of Contents

1. Altmetric Badge
   Book Overview
2. Altmetric Badge
   Chapter 1 Emergent or Just Unexpected?
3. Altmetric Badge
   Chapter 2 Sawu Bona : Systems Theory in Design
4. Altmetric Badge
   Chapter 3 Mapping the Stages of the Development of Management Sciences Methodologies in the UK: From Single Solving Methods to Multimethodology
5. Altmetric Badge
   Chapter 4 Relevance and Rigour, Theory and Practice in Systems
6. Altmetric Badge
   Chapter 5 Vickers’ Concept of Relationship-Maintaining and the Nature of Regulation
7. Altmetric Badge
   Chapter 6 Connecting Soft Systems Thinking with Project Management Practice: An Organizational Change Case Study
8. Altmetric Badge
   Chapter 7 Cybernetics/Systems Approach to Transformation of the Towel Production Firms in Osaka Area, Japan
9. Altmetric Badge
   Chapter 8 Towards a Contingency Framework for Intervention in the Context of a Systems-Based Approach
10. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 9 SSM-Guided Research to Improve the Linkages between a Science Provider and their End-Users
11. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 10 A Multi-Methodological Approach to Emergency Call Handling in the Metropolitan Police Service
12. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 11 Using SSM to Improve Supply Chain Effectiveness
13. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 12 Improving Systems Intervention in SMEs: Reflections on Systems Boundaries in Practice
14. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 13 Soft Systems Methodology based on Organizational Knowledge-Creation Theory
15. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 14 Inquiring into Learning as System
16. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 15 Creating Corporate Value through Knowledge Management Systems
17. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 16 Information, Knowledge and Teams
18. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 17 A Human Value System Based Methodology for an Organisational Development Consultancy
19. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 18 Systemic Learning with a Searchlight Approach
20. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 19 The Knowledge Worker and the Knowledge Age
21. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 20 Design of a Knowledge Management System for Quality Improvement in a Public Education System in México
22. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 21 Knowledge in Self-Organization Process: Hope (Finite) of System Thinking
23. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 22 The Value of Knowledge Workers — What Affects It and Who Decides?
24. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 23 Introduction to Knowledge Profiling
25. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 24 Participative Action Research (PAR) for Rural Community Development in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
26. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 25 Towards a New Agenda for Operational Research and Environmental Management
27. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 26 Rhythm of the Rivers: An Ecosystem Approach to Human Health on the Amazon Frontier
28. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 27 Turnaround Systems Alignment: A Methodology for Dealing with Complex-Coercive Problems
29. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 28 On an Application of Critical Systems Heuristics in a Framework for Evaluation of Software Development Productivity
30. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 29 A Trusting Constructivist View of Systems Thinking in the Knowledge Age
31. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 30 Autopoiesis and the Theory of Viable Systems
32. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 31 Reconciling Complexity Science in Organizations and Christian Spirituality
33. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 32 Taking Account of Human Rights
34. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 33 The Impact of Computer Hardware Theft on ICT Introduction to South African Rural Communities: An Interpretive Assessment Through Focus Groups and Morphological Analysis within a Process-Based Research Framework
35. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 34 Participation in Thames Chase Community Forest: A Multimedia Elicitation Tool
36. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 35 A Systems Approach to Marketing
37. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 36 Systemic Requirements for the Development of Competitive Capability: Lessons from a New Zealand Study of Competitive Advantage
38. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 37 Rethinking Business Strategy with Complexity Theory
39. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 38 Information System Risks and Countermeasures in Supply Chain Integration and Management for an Enterprise
40. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 39 An Evaluation Framework for Information Strategies at Higher Education Institutions
41. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 40 Systems Thinking in the Theory and Practice of Strategic Information Systems Planning
42. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 41 Practical Approaches to an Information Systems Architecture Implementation at Glaxowellcome
43. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 42 The Role of Surplus Vision in Knowledge Systems
44. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 43 Cross-Cultural Issues Affecting Electronic Transfer of Personal Health Information
45. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 44 Comment on ‘How’ to Conduct an Action Research Study in the Domain of Information Systems Development
46. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 45 Complex Clusters in Local Environments: Multi-Layered Multi-Media Learning
47. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 46 Handling Complexity in Networked Multimedia Systems: The Contribution of Semiotics
48. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 47 Some Considerations for a Semantic Analysis of Conceptual Data Schemata
49. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 48 Product and Systems Design through Linguistic Modelling
50. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 49 Modelling Roles in Business Systems Using Role Objects
51. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 50 Towards a Definition of the “Information Bearing Capability” of a Conceptual Data Schema
52. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 51 Enacting Platforms Towards Critical Systems Practice: Reflections from an Organisation-Based Action Research
53. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 52 A Base for Simulating Information Distribution
54. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 53 Systems Thinking and the Knowledge Age: Revisiting Kuhn
55. Altmetric Badge
    Chapter 54 Chaos and Complexity Theory in Management: An Exploration from a Critical Systems Thinking Perspective