Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from September 2006

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from September 2006

Guest editorial.
September 1, 2006... As 2004/2005 ISSS President, I became responsible for this edition of the ISSS 2006 Yearbook. To achieve this task, I asked Maurice Yolles as vice president for research and publications to assist me as co-editor. His experience and dedication...

System dynamics and the evolution of the systems movement.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION The purpose of this contribution is to give an overview of the role of System Dynamics (SD) in the context of the evolution of the systems movement. 'Systems movement'--often referred to briefly as 'systemics'--is a broad...

Narratives and transdisciplines for a post-industrial world.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION Systems practitioners and theorists often find themselves marginalized. Ken Boulding reported that a review of his academic department dismissed him as having lost interest in economics, and that at the very time he was...

Transdisciplinary unified theory.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION Sometime ago, a good friend of mine, a retired electrical engineer, much interested in robotics and in 'artificial intelligent systems', his personal Holy Grail, told me: 'I really wonder about the usefulness of General...

Exploring public-private partnerships through knowledge cybernetics.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION We are consistently being told that we are seeing a changing world in which globalization is central. More generally, however, this is part of a process of social complexification that occurs for instance as: social, political...

Creative holism: a critical systems approach to complex problem situations.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION The paper begins with the argument that creative holism is necessary in the modern world. Managers are facing ever increasing complexity, change and diversity, and the solutions they have at their disposal to cope with these...

Systemic methodologies in regional sustainable development.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION 'Regional development' attained under political and economic views has developed into a factor of pure growth, generating zones with high population density and accelerating environmental degradation, health problems, social...

Construction of knowledge in the mass media: systemic problems in the post-modern power-struggle between the symbolic generalized media in the Agora: the Lomborg case of environmental science and politics.(Research Paper)(Author abstract)
September 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM In 1962, the ecologist Rachel Carson (1) published the book Silent Springs in which she challenged the practices of agricultural scientists and the government. She was attacked by chemical industry and...

Systemic reflections on our past, present and future.(Research Paper)(Author abstract)(Company overview)
September 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION To start, a fairytale... Long ago in a far off land, a group of citizens made their way to heaven to appeal directly to God about the actions of the kings that ruled them. Having talked their way past the...

An essay on Kenneth E. Boulding's General Systems Theory: The Skeleton of Science.(Research Note)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... I speak a mystery: that there is no end To greatness or to smallness. Did we shrink To atom's size we would not reach the brink Of manifoldness, but would see extend A great new universe, whose atoms rend Themselves in turn to universes: think...

Ludwig von Bertalanffy returns home.(Research Note)(personal library of systems community found)
September 1, 2006... The rediscovery of Ludwig von Bertalanffy's personal library was one of the most remarkable events for the systems community during 2004/ 2005. Ludwig von Bertalanffy was born on 19 September 1901 in Atzgersdorf, then a suburb of Vienna....

Why few organizations adopt systems thinking.(Research Note)
September 1, 2006... I frequently talk to groups of managers on the nature of systems thinking and its radical implications to management. In doing so I use several case studies involving prominent American corporations. At the end of the presentation I am almost...

Systemics: knowledge or passion? (Summary of the outgoing presidential speech on 1 July 2005).(Research Note)(International Society for the Systems Sciences)
September 1, 2006... A year ago, I asked myself: what do you hope to hear from the incoming president? This year the question is: what do you expect to hear from the outgoing president? I think it may mostly be: what did I learn from you in these 12 months? What...