Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from January 2001

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from January 2001

Editorial.
January 1, 2001... We have selected an interesting set of papers to open Volume 18 of Systems Research and Behavioral Science. Ulrich, one of the originators of critical systems thinking, considers how that approach can be used to promote reflection and so...

The Quest for Competence in Systemic Research and Practice.
January 1, 2001... 1. INTRODUCTION `We understand only when we understand the question to which something is the answer' (Gadamer, 1975, p. 356, with reference to Collingwood, 1946). Hence, if we want to understand what it means to be `competent' in any...

Systems Approach to Knowledge Development for Creating New Products and Services.
January 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION It is increasingly evident that the improvement of financial returns and the acquisition of competitive advantages are primarily dependent on increasing customer satisfaction. Greater customer satisfaction, in turn, can only...

Towards Unifying Science: Applying Concepts Across Disciplinary Boundaries.
January 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION Unified science has long been a major goal of the systems movement. While some founders of systems science would probably have expected to see much more unification by now, the millennium is dawning without the realization of...

Certain Similarities Between the Evolution of Cooperation and Phase Transitions in Physics.
January 1, 2001... Robert Axelrod has argued that a regime of cooperation can be established in a world of selfish individuals pursuing their own self-interest (Axelrod, 1984). This will happen only if the shadow of the future looms large above their heads, and...

Systems Hierarchies and Management.
January 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION Management and systems thinking and practice, in spite of the efforts of a number of leading systemists, are not yet as interconnected as is commonly regarded as desirable, and additional efforts along this direction are...

How to Become a System Guru? The Path to Energize System Gurus of the New Millennium to Make System Science More Credible(a).
January 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION As the history of most disciplines demonstrates, system science is a field which has borrowed from many others. In its initial years, the system movement was led by several innovating `gurus' whose ideas were fresh and...

45th ISSS Annual Meeting and Conference--The 2001 Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, Asilomar Conference Centre, Monterey, California, 8-13 July 2001.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Conference Theme: Systems Science in the Service of Humanity One of the key objectives of the ISSS as stated in its by-laws is to `promote efforts toward the service of humanity'. This objective has been actively promoted by past president...

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love. By Dava Sobel. Published by Walker & Co., New York, 1999, 420 pp., ISBN 1 857 02712 4 This is one more account of the extraordinary vision of the Florentine scientist...

The Social Life of Information.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Social Life of Information. By John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 2000, ISBN 0 875 847625. John Seely Brown is the head of the Palo Alto Research Center for Xerox, and Paul Duguid is with...

Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Technologies the of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault. By L. H. Martin, H. Gutman and P. H. Hutton (eds). Tavistock Publications, London, 1988, 166 pp., ISBN 0 422 62570 1 (paperback). The book constitutes a collection of essays...