Planning for Human Systems : Essays in Honor of Russell L. Ackoff / Roberta M. Snow, Jean-Marc Choukroun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Choukroun, Jean-Marc, Editor.

Snow, Roberta M., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operations research.

System analysis.

Human capital--Planning.

Human capital.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Russell Lincoln Ackoff is a recognized authority in the field of operations research and systems theory. This volume is divided into four major sections. The first deals with Ackoff's intellectual roots in the American pragmatic tradition. The second section demonstrates how systems thinkers have incorporated Ackoff's ideas in their own work. The third section shows the influence of Ackoff's thinking on decision making and problem solving, while the final section offers a reassessment of current approaches to systems planning on the national level. In addition, the editors have provided a general introduction, as well as introductions to each of the five sections. Planning for Human Systems will be of interest to students and scholars of operations research and systems theory.Contributors: Michel Chevalier, C. West Churchman, Thomas A. Cowan, Eric Trist, Ian I. Mitroff, Stafford Beer, and Ignacy Sachs.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Russell L. Ackoff and Anheuser-Busch: I. The Influence of the Man on the Organization

2. Russell L. Ackoff and Anheuser-Busch: II. The Influence of the Organization on the Man

3. Analysis of Concepts

4. The Apostle of Progress

5. A Present of the Future

6. OR, MS, Systems Science, and Russell Ackoff: The Development of Two Paradigms

Appendix: Principal Publications of Russell L. Ackoff

7. Planning Concepts, Planning Contexts

8. OR in Organizations

9. Andras Angyal and Systems Thinking

10. A Theory of Management

11. Educating for Reflection-in-Action

12. Performance Criteria as a Means of Social integration

13. Some Comments on R. Ackoffs Concept of Interactive Planning

14. On Suicidal Rabbits: A Relativity of Systems

15. Personal Computers and the Shifting Control of Information in Corporations

16. Democratizing the Corporation: A Stakeholder Perspective

17. Inequalities in Decision Theory

18. Priorities and Decisions in Hierarchic and Feedback Systems

19. Measuring Process Creativity

20. Innovation and Optimization

21. Is It the Right Problem?

22. How Management by Consensus Is Bringing the Kingdom Down

23. Innovation in Juvenile Justice

24. The Elusive Interdisciplinarity of Development Planning

25. National Development Planning in Turbulent Times: New Approaches and Criteria for Institutional Design

26. Redesigning Western Foreign Policy

27. Power in the Design, Management, and Evaluation of Organizations

28. Toward Interactive Planning for International Development Projects

29. Surutato: An Experience in Rural Participative Planning

List of Contributors

Subject Index

Name Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781512801576

1512801577

OCLC:

967550303