Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from January 2005

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from January 2005

Fifty years of Behavioral Science.(Editorial)(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... The gold lettering that appears on the front cover of this volume of Systems Research and Behavioral Science signals a significant event. The first issue of Behavioral Science appeared in January 1956 and our journal is, therefore, 50 years old...

The use of the concept autopoiesis in the theory of viable systems.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION: AUTOPOIESIS AND VIABLE SYSTEMS This paper examines how the idea of autopoiesis is deployed within the context of viable systems theory and constrasts this with its application in the field of biology where it originated. ...

Theory and practice of soft systems methodology: a performative contradiction?(Research Paper)
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION In their practice, managers and organizational consultants are often confronted with situations in which there is no agreement on the nature of the problem at hand. According to Checkland, they are then confronted with...

Sourcing problem-dissolving questions.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION That questions are important for knowledge creation and problem dissolving does not seem to have been missed in the theory of knowledge literature. (1,2) In Meno, Socrates uses short questioning to 'draw out' the square rule...

Identifying those on board 'the moving train': towards a stakeholder-focused methodology for organizational decision making.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION What accommodation is possible and appropriate between quantitative and qualitative traditions of enquiry? Can the divide between them be bridged by identifying research methods and problem-solving approaches that draw from...

The mathematico-symbolic formulation of teleonic principles.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Teleonics has its roots in computer simulation studies of calcium homeostasis (Jaros et al., 1979, 1980). Thus, its origins lie in the mathematical, computer-modelling field applied mainly to the analysis of complex...

Connectivity as a basis for a systems modelling ontology.(Research Paper)
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Natural and man-made organizations have structural and dynamic attributes within an environment of which they are part. Organizations comprised of human beings rely for their management and direction on a knowledge of those...

Notes and insights: a list of 20 papers that first appeared in the Journal Behavioral Science.
January 1, 2005... Professor Mike C. Jackson, University of Hull: The following is a list of 20 of the most influential papers that were published in Behavioral Science, in order of appearance. I am grateful to Lane Tracy for much of the original research...

Metadecisions: invoking the epistemological imperative to enhance the meaning of knowledge for problem solving (1).(Notes and Insights)(Author Abstract)
January 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The Acquisition of Knowledge to Solve Problems The solution of problems is related to the enterprise of science and of epistemology from which knowledge evolves. Science is entrusted with the acquisition of the knowledge...

The 49th annual meeting of the International Society for the System Sciences (ISSS), Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, July 1-5 2005.(News)
January 1, 2005... Incoming ISSS President: Enrique G. Herrscher, enriqueherrscher@fibertel.com.ar, www.CAPSIS. com.ar Advisory Committee: Len Troncale, Reinaldo Trevino, G. A. Swanson., Carl Slawski, Markus Schwaninger, Jennifer Wilby, Charles Francois,...

Dimensions of Apeiron: a Topological Phenomenology of Space, Time and Individuation.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Dimensions of Apeiron: A Topological Phenomenology of Space, Time and Individuation. By Steven M. Rosen. Published by Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, 2004, 238 pp., ISBN: 90 420 1199 8, US $56/EUR 45. J. L. Borges (2000) opens one of his...

Human Systems are Different.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Human Systems are Different. By Sir Geoffrey Vickers. Published by Harper & Row, London, 1983, 188pp., ISBN 0 06 318262 9. The foreword by S. B. Sutton offers a wonderful, if short, biosketch of Vickers' life; rendering superfluous any...

Critical Systemic Praxis for Social and Environmental Justice: Participatory Policy Design and Governance for a Global Age.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Critical Systemic Praxis for Social and Environmental Justice: Participatory Policy Design and Governance for a Global Age. By Janet McIntyre-Mills. Published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York and London, 2003. 460pp. ISBN:...