Cybernetics and Systems Theory in Management: Tools, Views, and Advancements: Tools, Views, and AdvancementsWallis, Steven E. As management theory is critical to understanding decision-making and formal leadership in organizations, comprehension of their creation, structure, and application greatly benefits and furthers the development of management systems. Cybernetics and Systems Theory in Management: Tools, Views, and Advancements provides new models and insights into how to develop, test, and apply more effective decision-making and ethical practices in an organizational setting. This critical mass of sought after knowledge with expert international contributions presents a cornerstone publication inspiring new directions of research and theory building. |
Contents
Toward a Theory Guided Field of Practice | 1 |
Leaders Decisions and theNeuroKnowledge System | 21 |
Exploring the Implicationsof Complexity Thinkingfor the Management ofComplex Organizations | 36 |
Decision Integrity andSecond Order Cybernetics | 52 |
Manage the Real ComplexSystem Not its Model | 75 |
Applying an Innovative IndustryAcademicCollaborative Case Study Approachin Systemic Management Research | 93 |
Implementing AdvancedManufacturing Technology | 108 |
A Relational Approach | 127 |
A Metaphor for PostNormal Science | 191 |
Evolution of Novelty from aCybernetic Perspective | 217 |
Management and Structure | 229 |
A System Approach toDescribing Analysing andControl of the Behaviourof Agents in MAS | 253 |
Identification and ResponsePrediction of Switching DynamicSystems Using Interval Analysis | 274 |
Selection of the Best Subsetof Variables in Regressionand Time Series Models | 303 |
Compilation of References | 321 |
About the Contributors | 354 |
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