Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from May 2004

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from May 2004

Bela H. Banathy Festschrift: essays honoring a systems scholar and practitioner.(Editorial)
May 1, 2004... In the history of systems science, Bela H. Banathy will be remembered as a great systemist, a valued scholar, and a true practitioner of systems design. Bela considered himself a systems and design scientist, an educator, and author. Those who...

Bela H. Banathy: a short story of my life.(Research Paper)(Biography)
May 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION I am a systems and design scientist, an educator, and author. (Banathy, 2000a) In October 2000 Bela shared, in an electronic correspondence, a short story of his life with the Agora Stewards (1) and members of the...

The well-being of social systems.(Research Paper)
May 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION The topic of societal well-being has a lengthy history, and, in the past 75 years, the concern with its development has continued to be expressed by writers and theorists from many fields of inquiry. The literature for this...

Designing with: a homeopoietic ethic for organizational change.(Research Paper)
May 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION How do we respond to the challenges of rapid change in so many aspects of our environment? What actions should we take when new knowledge of systems and evolution tells us that our actions have significant consequences, but...

The empty chair: uncertain futures and systemic dichotomies.(Research Paper)
May 1, 2004... PREAMBLE: BELA BANATHY AND THE EMPTY CHAIR In 1994 I attended my first Fuschl Conversation (Banathy and Chroust, 1998; Bender and Chroust, 1998; Hofer and Chroust, 2000, 2003). Fuschl Conversations, named after the village Fuschl am See,...

Discourse ethics in the design of educational systems: considerations for design praxis.(Research Paper)
May 1, 2004... Discourse is the maker of the world, not its mirror. (Foucault, 1972, p. 49) INTRODUCTION Discourse ethics, in relation to creating and sustaining design conversation that is ethical, is a primary factor in the conceptions, decisions,...

Designing a transnational indigenous leaders interaction in the context of globalization: a wisdom of the people forum.(Research Paper)
May 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO) perceives itself as a catalyst (Broome and Christakis, 1988) for ushering in a new era of its history by designing an opportunity for transnational Indigenous leadership interaction, an...

Bela H. Banathy: the legacy of a design conversation.(Research Paper)
May 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Bela H. Banathy was one of several distinguished systems scholars I met as a consequence of being C. West Churchman's graduate student at UC Berkeley. In my association with Prof. Churchman I was introduced to an intriguing...

The role of evolutionary learning community in evolutionary development: the unfolding of a line of inquiry.(Research Paper)
May 1, 2004... THE EMERGENCE OF AN EVOLVING LINE OF INQUIRY Systems science emerged as a response to the need for finding ways of understanding and dealing with complexity. The expanding orientation of systems thinking has enabled a quest for connections...

Designing within: Dr Bela H. Banathy's contributions to the self-organization of public discourse.(Research Paper)
May 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION The global social system is being strained to breaking point, requiring humanity to urgently undertake responsibility for guiding its own cultural evolution to a higher state--rather than allowing it to unfold randomly. This...

Reflections on the role of dialogue in education and community building.(Research Paper)
May 1, 2004... IN THE BEGINNING Sitting down to write this paper has given me an opportunity to reflect on the path that brought me to the general systems community and the people I have had the pleasure of meeting along the way. It was Fritjof Capra and...

The 48th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), Asilomar Conference Center, Asilomar, Pacific Grove (Monterey), California, 4-9 July 2004.(News)
May 1, 2004... Conference theme: Fifty Years of Systems Science: Honoring Tradition, Embracing the Future This year we are celebrating our fiftieth anniversary. The original "Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory' was formed under the...

Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers. By Michael C. Jackson. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2003, 352 pp, ISBN 0 470 84522 8, 24.95 [pound sterling]. Reading Jackson's latest work is revealing. It proves that...

Redesigning Society.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Redesigning Society. By Russell L. Ackoff and Sheldon Rovin. Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2003, 184 pp, ISBN 0 8047 4794 6, $24.95. Admirers of Russell Ackoff's work taking a systems approach to corporate...

Processes and Boundaries of the Mind: Extending the Limit Line.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Processes and Boundaries of the Mind: Extending the Limit Line. By Yair Neuman. Published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2003, 170 pp, ISBN: 0 306 48121 9, $60.50. The author, Yair Neuman, is currently in the Faculty of...