This paper describes a research programme which used the idea that there is a 'system of
systems methodologies' to analyse the relationship between OR and other systems-based …

Applied systems thinking has evolved since the 1950s through three paradigm atic waves.
Authors in the first wave regarded systems as real-world entities, and systems models as …

The term 'systemic innovation'is increasing in use, but there is no consensus on its meaning:
five understandings of the term can be identified, each based on a different view of what the …

Having answered the basic question 'why methodology?', I can now begin to lay out my own
methodological ideas, starting with a definition of the term 'intervention'. This will provide a …

Systems Thinking is a new paradigm set to revolutionize management practice in the 21st
century. Systems Approaches to Management is the most comprehensive guide available to …

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Systems practice has motored on relentlessly in the last 15 to 20 years, making its major
tracks and dust storms in methodology practice while, increasingly, undertaking selfcritique …

Critical systems thinking and the methodologies associated with it were developed precisely
to allow analysis of complex societal problems and intervention to resolve such problems …

This paper makes a theoretical case for using these two systems approaches together. The
theoretical and methodological assumptions of system dynamics (SD) and soft system …

The aim of this chapter is to explore a number of possible interpretations of its title,'Liberating
Systems Theory'('LST'). Each of these selected meanings represents a theme, or a strand of …