Emery, F. E. Systems thinking: : selected readings; [electronic resource] / edited by F. E. Emery.. — Harmondsworth, : Penguin,, 1969.. — 398 p. : illus. 18 cm. — (Penguin modern management readings)(Penguin education no. 71.).
Includes bibliographies.
Part I. Precendents to systems theory -- Part II. Properties of open systems -- Part III. The environment of a system -- Part IV. Human organizations as systems -- Part V. Systems management -- : A logic of systems / : The structure and function of organization / : Closed and open systems / : The theory of open systems in physics and biology / : Common characteristics of open systems / : Self-regulation and requisite variety / : Certain peculiarities of organisms as a system from the point of view of physics, cybernetics, and biology / : The abstract characteristics of living systems / : A tentative classification of goal-seeking behaviours / : Rational choice and the structure of the environment / : Adaptation in the multistable system / : The causal texture of organizational environments / : Foundations of the theory of organizations / : Socio-technical systems / : A formalization of functionalism / : Systems, organizations, and interdisciplinary research / : Economic development, research and development, policy making : some converging views / : The road to 1977 / A. Angyal -- J. Feibleman and J.W. Friend -- W. Koehler -- L. von Bertalanffy -- D. Katz and R.L. Kahn -- W.R. Ashby -- V.I. Kremyanskiy -- G. Sommerhoff -- M.P. Schutzenberger -- H.A. Simon -- W.R. Ashby -- F.E. Emery and E.L. Trist -- P. Selznick -- F.E. Emery and E.L. Trist -- E. Nagel -- R.L. Ackoff -- A.O. Hirschman and C.E. Lindblom -- M. Ways.
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System analysis. Ciencias sociales--Investigación--Metodología. Organisation. Systèmes, Théorie des. Systèmes, Analyse de. Systeemtheorie. Management. Organisatietheorie.