Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from July 2000

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from July 2000

The Development of Systems Thinking in Southern Africa: A Contribution.
July 1, 2000... This special issue reflects the current state in the development of systemic practice at the University of Cape Town and its contribution to systemic management in South Africa. The papers are drawn from the 1997 conference and reflect a sample...

Ensuring Delivery Through Organizational Design.
July 1, 2000... THE NON-DELIVERY PROBLEM We all face a basic problem soon after birth: how do we get the rest of the world to do what we want them to do? It takes a few milliseconds to realize that crying helps, and some never unlearn the value of a...

Generative Conversations: Applying Lyotard's Discourse Model to Knowledge Creation Within Contemporary Organizations.
July 1, 2000... I don't think there is any discourse without efficacy. (Lyotard, 1985, p. 52) INTRODUCTION The goal of generative conversation heuristics is to provide support and guidelines for participants who wish to collaborate in...

Toward a Humanized Systemic Organization: A Confucian Perspective.
July 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Rapid and complex societal evolution demands efficient organization in order to cope with changing human need. Organization needs to employ advanced concepts and technology in an elaborated designed structure to process...

Software Development as Organizational Conversation: Analogy as a Systems Intervention.
July 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION There is a persistent productivity problem affecting the process of software development which is often referred to as the `Software Crisis'. Whilst technological innovation in computer hardware is rapid and fuels great...

The Role of Simulation Gaming in Policy-Making.
July 1, 2000... THE CHANGING CONTEXT OF POLICY-MAKING We know that our world is becoming increasingly more complex. The media and our experience have been telling us this for the past two decades. On a daily basis we experience our decreasing ability to...

Knowledge System Diagnostics: Applying Foucault's Archaeological Framework to Organizations.
July 1, 2000... One cannot speak of anything at any time; it is not easy to say something new; it is not enough for us to open our eyes, to pay attention, or to be aware, for new objects suddenly to light up and emerge out of the ground. Foucault (1972, p....

Towards a Systemic Framework for Understanding Science and Technology Policy Formulation Problems for Developing Countries.
July 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION The problems of developing countries are well documented and they appear to be growing in magnitude. Among these are the following: staggering unemployment, urban overpopulation, rural stagnation, growing inequalities,...

Effective Intelligence: Conceptual Tools for Delivering Systems.
July 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Man is the problem-creator. There are no problems save those you recognize. When you have standards or aspirations different from those you are delivering or from those that prevail in the world around you, then you have a...

The Systemic Nature of Action Learning Programmes.
July 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION The characteristics of management problems can be classified under three groups, namely: organic, cultural and power characteristics. These characteristics determine the level of complexity of management problems. For...

News.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Systems Modelling and Simulation at CASYS'2000 -- the 4th International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems, Liege, Belgium, 7-12 August 2000 Conference details are available at http://www.ulg.ac.be/mathgen/CHAOS/CASYS.html....

The Dynamics and Complexity of Political Systems.
July 1, 2000... The Dynamics and Complexity of Political Systems. By Yong Pil Rhee. Published by Ingansarang Press, Seoul, South Korea, 1999, 317 pp., ISBN 89 7418 108 8, $15 (paperback). This book aims to apply modern systems theory to political science....

Multimethodology: The Theory and Practice of Combining Management Science Methodologies.
July 1, 2000... Multimethodology: The Theory and Practice of Combining Management Science Methodologies. By John Mingers and Anthony Gill (Eds), John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1997, xvi+442 pp., 37.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0 471 97490 0 (hardback). This...