Systems thinking : selected readings / edited by F. E. Emery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Emery, F. E. (Frederick Edmund), editor, editor.

Penguin (Firm), publisher.

Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), printer.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin modern management readings

Penguin Education ; no. 71.

Penguin modern management readings.

Penguin education ; no. 71.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

System analysis.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

398 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Manufacture:

Bungay : Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd.

Place of Publication:

Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1969.

Summary:

Describes a way of looking at phenomena from biolocgical systems to social systems.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk"--verso of title page.

Advertisements: 2 pages at end.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Rare copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

ISBN:

0140800719

OCLC:

66172