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Systemic Practice and Action Research Volume 5 Issue 3

Subject Areas: Management of Technology and Innovation;
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers - Springer Journals
ISSN: 1094-429X
SJR: 35

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Editorial

Flood, Robert L.

1992 Systemic Practice and Action Research

doi:10.1007/bf01059839
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Some notes on a working visit to South Africa

Ackoff, Russell L.

1992 Systemic Practice and Action Research

doi:10.1007/bf01059840
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Philosophy as I remember it: Voltaire

Ackoff, Russell L.

1992 Systemic Practice and Action Research

doi:10.1007/bf01059841
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Critical systems thinking: A challenge or dilemma in its practice?

Payne, Stephen L.

1992 Systemic Practice and Action Research

doi:10.1007/BF01059842

Abstract Emerging descriptions of critical systems thinking (CST) have yet to provide much information on how consultants with such a philosophy should act as potential organizational change agents in actually gaining opportunities to introduce CST applications. Issues of professional activism...
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Refinery constructors incorporated: A case study in adaptation to advanced telecommunications technology

Dykman, Charlene A.

1992 Systemic Practice and Action Research

doi:10.1007/bf01059843

Abstract This paper illustrates the application of a broadly based approach to the implementation of an advanced communications system in an international setting. The failure of an initial implementation is discussed. The subsequent removal of the failed system and redesign of the second...
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Tracking the development of the Emery-Trist systems paradigm (ETSP)

Babüroǵlu, Oǵuz N.

1992 Systemic Practice and Action Research

doi:10.1007/BF01059844

Abstract This paper is written to accomplish two objectives: first, to introduce the Emery-Trist systems paradigm to the critical systems thinking, a largely neglected and under-utilized paradigm; second using a critical systems thinking framework, to provide a rational justification in an...
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Operations research (OR), management science (MS), systems science, and Russell Ackoff: The development of two paradigms

Carvajal, Raúl

1992 Systemic Practice and Action Research

doi:10.1007/bf01059845

Abstract The development of OR, MS, and systems science from 1946 through 1980 is seen through a review of Russell Ackoff's work up to approximately the 1980s. Five stages of OR development are distinguished: emergence, expansion of frontiers, institutionalization, controversy, and separation....
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Choice and ideology with interpretive systems theory

Flood, Robert L.

1992 Systemic Practice and Action Research

doi:10.1007/bf01059846

Abstract This Research Note shows that choice cannot be avoided by interpretive systems thinking and action. Interpretive systems thinkers must recognize the politicoideological element of choice in all aspects of their work-on fundamental philosophy, social theory, and methodology. Interpretive...
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Interpretive systemology and the problem of intervention

Jackson, Michael C.

1992 Systemic Practice and Action Research

doi:10.1007/bf01059847
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Fuenmayor's interpretive systemology—A critical comment

Mingers, John

1992 Systemic Practice and Action Research

doi:10.1007/bf01059848

Conclusion Although this paper has been concerned with developing criticisms of interpretive systemology, the work of Fuenmayor and colleagues should not be disregarded. It is a serious and scholarly attempt to develop a theoretical basis for interpretive systems from phenomenology. This should...

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