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Systems theory and management thinking. / Checkland, P.
In: American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 38, No. 1, 09.1994, p. 75-91.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Systems theory and management thinking
AU - Checkland, P.
PY - 1994/9
Y1 - 1994/9
N2 - Two inquiring systems developed since the 1960s—Vickers's concept of the appreciative system and the soft systems methodology, are highly relevant to the problems of the 21st century. Both assume that organizations are more than rational goal-seeking machines and address the relationship-maintaining and Gemeinschaft aspects of organizations, characteristically obscured by functionalist and goal-seeking models of organization and management. Appreciative systems theory and soft systems methodology enrich rather than replace these approaches.
AB - Two inquiring systems developed since the 1960s—Vickers's concept of the appreciative system and the soft systems methodology, are highly relevant to the problems of the 21st century. Both assume that organizations are more than rational goal-seeking machines and address the relationship-maintaining and Gemeinschaft aspects of organizations, characteristically obscured by functionalist and goal-seeking models of organization and management. Appreciative systems theory and soft systems methodology enrich rather than replace these approaches.
U2 - 10.1177/0002764294038001007
DO - 10.1177/0002764294038001007
M3 - Journal article
VL - 38
SP - 75
EP - 91
JO - American Behavioral Scientist
JF - American Behavioral Scientist
SN - 0002-7642
IS - 1
ER -