"To Flood and Carson (1988, p. 19) systems science is about dealing with complexity, and systems notions are particula…"

"Positivism : knowledge is hard, real, and capable of being transmitted in a tangible form."

"Cybernetics, although not ignoring formal networks, suggests that an informal communications structure will also be p…"

"If Critical Systems Thinking is to contribute to enlightened societal practice, e.g., with respect to the pressing en…"

"In general, we seem to associate complexity with anything we find difficult to understand."

"Critique in its many manifestations puts up a common opposition to instrumental rationality, because such a rationali…"

"Quality means meeting customers' (agreed) requirements, formal and informal, at lowest cost, first time every time."

"Churchman recognized in his critical systemic thinking that the human mind is not able to know the whole. … Yet the h…"

"So far it has been ascertained that a root definition is a core description of purposeful activity taken from a speci…"

"In the modern systems approach, the concept "system" is used not to refer to things in the world but to a particular …"