Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from May 2003

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from May 2003

Dr James Grier Miller: psychiatrist, scholar, university president, author. (Obituary).
May 1, 2003... The world of education and research lost an intellectual giant with the death of James Grier Miller on 7 November 2002. At age 86, he died of natural causes in his Mount Soledad home atop La Jolla, California. It was just eight weeks after the...

Editorial.
May 1, 2003... It is with great sadness that we at Systems Research and Behavioral Science have to report the death of James Grier Miller. As just one among many achievements, in a most distinguished career, Jim originated the multidisciplinary term...

Diversity management in organizational change: towards a systemic framework. (Research Paper).
May 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION The twenty-first-century organization is characterized by ever-increasing global competition, ever-increasing customer expectations, and ever-increasing change. To respond to these pressures, many organizations face a...

Factors that induce change in information systems. (Research Paper).
May 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Langefors (1995) has identified some fundamental problems to information system (IS) development. One of these problems he has called systems and change. The environments of ISs are exposed to change. This will have an effect...

Soft systems methodology and dialectics in an information environment: a case study of the Battle of Britain.
May 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION How we conceptualize a real-world situation adequately for the purpose of intervention or analysis is central to both information systems (IS) development and research. In this paper, we analyse two alternative methods of...

Unidimensional life. (Research Paper).
May 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION What are the really fundamental differences between inert and living matter? Physics has shown that all material systems are made of simple atoms and thus it opened the prospect to explain all systemic behaviours in terms of...

Terrorism: a systemic view. (Notes and Insights).
May 1, 2003... Broadly speaking, 'terrorism' is regarded as extremely violent behavior by what is normally considered to be a minority subgroup of society. The value system in which terrorism is imbedded is not universally shared within the larger society...

A New Kind of Science.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... By Stephen Wolfram. Published by Wolfram Media, Champaign, IL, 2002, 1197 pp., ISBN 1 579 55008 8, $44.95. The readers of this journal are familiar with the notion of complexity, which has been the subject of countless treatises and...

The 4th International Conference of Sociocybernetics: The Future of the Social Sciences--Society from Ancient Greece to Cyberspace and Beyond, Corfu, Greece, 30 June-5 July 2003. (News).
May 1, 2003... CONFERENCE THEME Within the framework of this conference two major objectives are to be dealt with. The first part will concentrate on identifying and specifying the principles of sociocybernetics including their empirical foundations....

The Third International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations, Penang, Malaysia, 11-14 August 2003. (News).
May 1, 2003... The overall theme of the Management Conference 2003 is knowledge-based social and economic change. Driven by globalization and advances in information and communications technologies, this change has been characterized in terms of emerging...

The 4th International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences (KSS 2003), Guangzhou, China, 29-30 November 2003. (News).
May 1, 2003... CONFERENCE THEME Knowledge science is a new discipline. The significant feature of development of knowledge sciences is the prosperous interdisciplinary programs on an international scale. Promotion of the exchanges and interactions of...