Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from January 2004

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from January 2004

Editorial.(Editorial)
January 1, 2004... Welcome to the new Volume of Systems Research and Behavioral Science. If 21.1 is representative of what is to follow, then we are in for some very interesting reading during the year. The first three research papers apply systems thinking...

A systemic approach to entrepreneurial learning: an exploration using storytelling.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2004... 1. INTRODUCTION The promotion of entrepreneurship as a driver for economic change is high on the educational agenda, reflecting political support at the highest level. The Interman Directory (Interman, 1991) identifies three main...

Systems thinking and knowledge management: positional assertions and preliminary observations.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION The the term 'knowledge management' has been used to mean a myriad of very different things. For example, in recent consulting activities, one organization was reorganizing so as to provide one centralized 'call centre', to...

Facilitating critical systemic praxis (CSP) by means of experiential learning and conceptual tools (1): to enhance our capacity to design systemic policy and praxis that promotes understanding through better governance.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION: THE PURPOSE OF THE PAPER The paper comprises two genres, namely a learning resource and commentary on the resource. To distinguish between the two, the learning resource is presented in a lower case. The paper aims to: ...

The problem of knowledge imposition: Paulo Freire and critical systems thinking.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Arguably most critical approaches establish a central relationship between criticality and the problem of imposing knowledge. More specifically, two of the functions of criticality would be to reveal the existence of...

The last days of a systems research centre: an empirical case study.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2004... 1. THE PROBLEM AND ITS CONTEXT In the project reported here, the object of research was constituted by a small research centre at a university in England, known as the Centre for Systems Research. The 'commissioner' of this project was its...

The law and the systems analyst.(Notes and Insights)
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION In this research note the relevance of legislation and regulation to IT projects is examined based upon ongoing research and consultancy work with a variety of organizations from both the public and private sectors of the UK....

Mai von Foerster and Herbert Brun: together and apart. An addendum to Heinz von Foerster's obituary.(Addendum)(Obituary)
January 1, 2004... Gary Boyd pointed out to me that in my obituary article on Heinz von Foerster I had neglected to mention the close working relationship between von Foerster and the composer Herbert Brun, which was particularly important in the development of...

Introduction to Systems Thinking: Walking the Ideas and Rethinking the Way.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By Enrique Herrscher, prefaced by J. Gharajedaghi. Published by Granica Ediciones, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2003, 270 pp., ISBN 950 641 386 X, $18.85 (12.00 [pounds sterling] approx.) (in Spanish). The interest in systems thinking ideas and...