Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from May 2000

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from May 2000

Where a Blind Man Ends: Five Comments on Context, Artifacts and the Boundaries of the Mind.
May 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION The mind as constructed by orthodox cognitive science excludes artifacts. The current paper challenges this by using Gregory Bateson's radical notion of the mind, according to which the mind is a system whose boundaries are...

Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management.
May 1, 2000... Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management. Andrew P. Sage and William B. Rouse (Editors). John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

The Living Company.(Review)
May 1, 2000... The Living Company. By Arie de Geus. Published by Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1997, 215pp., ISBN 0 8754782 X, $17.47 (cloth). Our perception of religious, governmental and educational institutions is one of longevity. Some...

The Whole and Main Ideas of Systems Science.
May 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION According to systems science, is the science of systems itself a system? The modest intent of this brief essay in posing such a philosophical question is to suggest that classical systems science may exemplify some of its own,...

Role-Play in Inquiring Systems and Information Systems Development.
May 1, 2000... 1. INTRODUCTION Them has been a strong argument, for many years, by those concerned with the development of computer science (Boehm, 1976; Dijkstra, 1976; Gibbs, 1994; Hoare, 1982; Sommerville, 1989, for example) that the methods of...

Interaction and Transformation in SSM.(Soft Systems Methodology)
May 1, 2000... 1. INTRODUCTION Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) was developed at the former Systems Department at Lancaster University, UK. The Lancaster researchers and students have since the late 1960s used action research to test, develop and rethink...

Providing Systemic Change for Schools: Towards Professional Development through Moral Conversation.
May 1, 2000... I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from...

Luhmann, Habermas and the Theory of Communication(a).
May 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION: SOCIOLOGY, ACTION THEORY, AND SYSTEMS THEORY Social systems theory and, more particularly, concepts like self-organization, self-referentiality, autopoiesis and reflexivity, have been the subject of intensive philosophical...

Living Systems Theory of James Grier Miller and Teleonics.
May 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION `The essence of life is process. If the processing of matter--energy and information ends, life also ends.' (Miller and Miller, 1992) The year 1998 marked the 20th anniversary of the publication of Living...

Situation--Actor--Process Options: Mapping and Enhancing Flexibility.
May 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Systemic flexibility is characterized by three key words: options, change and freedom of choice. The identification of flexibility on any plane would require in the first place the delineation of the range of options. In this...