TY - BOOK AU - Emery,F.E. TI - Systems thinking: selected readings T2 - Penguin modern management readings SN - 0140800719 AV - Q295 .E45 U1 - 001.5/3/08 PY - 1969/// CY - Harmondsworth PB - Penguin KW - System analysis KW - Ciencias sociales KW - Investigación KW - Metodología KW - Organisation KW - Systèmes, Théorie des KW - Systèmes, Analyse de KW - Systeemtheorie KW - gtt KW - Management KW - Organisatietheorie N1 - Includes bibliographies; Part I. Precendents to systems theory --; A logic of systems; A. Angyal --; The structure and function of organization; J. Feibleman and J.W. Friend --; Part II. Properties of open systems --; Closed and open systems; W. Koehler --; The theory of open systems in physics and biology; L. von Bertalanffy --; Common characteristics of open systems; D. Katz and R.L. Kahn --; Self-regulation and requisite variety; W.R. Ashby --; Certain peculiarities of organisms as a system from the point of view of physics, cybernetics, and biology; V.I. Kremyanskiy --; The abstract characteristics of living systems; G. Sommerhoff --; Part III. The environment of a system --; A tentative classification of goal-seeking behaviours; M.P. Schutzenberger --; Rational choice and the structure of the environment; H.A. Simon --; Adaptation in the multistable system; W.R. Ashby --; The causal texture of organizational environments; F.E. Emery and E.L. Trist --; Part IV. Human organizations as systems --; Foundations of the theory of organizations; P. Selznick --; Socio-technical systems; F.E. Emery and E.L. Trist --; A formalization of functionalism; E. Nagel --; Systems, organizations, and interdisciplinary research; R.L. Ackoff --; Part V. Systems management --; Economic development, research and development, policy making : some converging views; A.O. Hirschman and C.E. Lindblom --; The road to 1977; M. Ways; Also issued online UR - http://www.archive.org/details/systemsthinkings00emerrich UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL5724514M ER -