Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from March 2003

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from March 2003

Systems thinking for social responsibility. (Editorial).(trends in systems thinking)(Editorial)
March 1, 2003... In 1999, Gerald Midgley and Martin Reynolds were commissioned by the Operational Research Society (a professional association in the UK) to investigate how operational research (OR) would have to develop in order to meet the emerging challenges...

Integrating science and management through collaborative learning and better information management. (Research Paper).
March 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Local resource managers often struggle to solve their environmental problems. In addition to the fact that the issues are driven by domains beyond local experience, local or policy managers have to anticipate the consequences...

Systems thinking and the disclosure of a technological society: some philosophical reflections. (Research Paper).
March 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION In a 1978 article about `The Origins and Nature of "Hard" Systems Thinking' the English systems scientist Checkland observes that variants of systems thinking that arose from technology such as `systems engineering' and...

The role of systems research and operational research in community involvement: a case study of a health action zone. (Research Paper).(a discussion of the UK government's regional policy for health)
March 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Probably the most important theme of the UK government's regional policy for health is regeneration. It is claimed that the processes and partnerships put in place to regenerate areas with multiple disadvantages could provide...

A critical systems intervention to improve the implementation of a district health system in KwaZulu-Natal. (Research Paper).
March 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION The difficulties that public agencies have in achieving the goals of social policies are often rooted in the limitations of conventional managerial approaches in dealing with the `messy' problems at the interface of policy and...

Economy of Communion: systemic factors in the rise of a new entrepreneurship. (Research Paper).
March 1, 2003... TOWARDS A SYSTEMS THEORY OF THE SPREAD OF IDEAS The Economy of Communion is a business paradigm that has been described as a living `third way' between Marxism and Capitalism grounded in a profound respect for the individual dignity of the...

Paradigmatic metamorphosis and organizational development. (Research Paper).(a discussion of a cybernetic theory of organizational patterning)
March 1, 2003... PARADIGMATIC METAMORPHOSIS It has only been within the last 30 years or so, largely since the work of Kuhn (1970), that we have considered how paradigms change their form. Incremental change involves the development of concepts and their...

Multilevel Webs stretched across time: retroactive and proactive inter-influences. (Research Paper).(psychological research)
March 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION According to Henri Bergson (1888-1967), the fundamental self--being--can be apprehended only through states of consciousness engaged in a continuous flow and transformative process. These states, he underlines, are in a...

The 47th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), Iraklion, Crete, Greece, 7-11 July, 2003. (News).
March 1, 2003... The conference theme, `Conscious evolution of humanity: using systems thinking to construct AGORAS of the global village', has been chosen to focus attention on: (a) the challenge facing humanity as it transforms from `evolutionary...

Informing Science + IT Education Conference, Pori, Finland, 24-27 June 2003. (News).(Illustration)
March 1, 2003... The InSITE (Informing Science + IT Education) conference solicits papers in any area that explores issues in effectively and efficiently informing clients through information technology. Papers on IT education are also invited. The purpose...

Emergence in Complex, Cognitive, Social and Biological Systems.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... Edited by Gianfranco Minati and Eliano Pessa. Published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2002, 410 pp., ISBN 0 306 47358 5, 144.00 [euro], US $125.00, 87.50 [pounds sterling]. The word `emergence' is nowadays meant as the central topic of a wide...