"The basic managerial idea introduced by systems thinking, is that to manage a system effectively, you might focus on …"

"The further development of the open system thinking propounded by von Bertalanffy and Prigogine requires us to charac…"

"There are reasons to believe that the world economy is once again in the throes of a phase change. There are also rea…"

"I am inclined to agree with Max Bom, the German physicist, who reckoned that the acceptance of a new quantum theory w…"

"A main problem in the study of organizational change is that the environmental contexts in which organizations exist …"

"In a general way it may be said that to think in terms of systems seems the most appropriate conceptual response so f…"

"In the selection of papers for this volume, two problems have arisen, namely what constitutes systems thinking and wh…"

"A great deal of the thinking here has been influenced by cybernetics and information theory, though this has been use…"

"We have now isolated four "ideal types" of causal texture, approximations to which may be thought of as existing simu…"

"The simplest type of environmental texture is that in which goals and noxiants ("goods" and "bads") are relatively un…"