Overview
- The main market for this book is the academic systems community worldwide
- Its interdisciplinary coverage will also make it relevant to a wide range of scholars in other disciplines such as operations research, information systems, sociology and philosophy
- Useful as a companion text for courses on systems thinking in a variety of disciplines
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Action and Intervention
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book provides a thorough evaluation of the philosophy of systems, ending up with an introduction to multimethodology and its application in real situations. … The style of the book is uncompromisingly academic with full referencing … and relevant quotations. … is targeted at the academic community and will serve this audience well, most especially those undertaking research degrees with a heavy bias towards non-physical science areas of interest. … It does provide a good academic foundation for multimethodology applications." (Jane Holland, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 59, 2008)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
John Mingers is Professor of Operational Research and Information Systems at Canterbury Business School, University of Kent. He is Deputy Director of the business school and Director of Research. He is a past Chair of the UK Systems Society and has been a member of the Council of the OR Society. John Mingers studied Management Sciences for his first degree at Warwick and later completed a Masters in Systems in Management at Lancaster University and a PhD at Warwick. He also worked in industry as a systems analyst and then as an OR analyst.
His research interests include the use of systems methodologies in problem situations - particularly the mixing of different methodologies within an intervention (multimethodology); the application of multimethodology to research methods within information systems; the development of the critical systems approach; autopoiesis (self-producing systems) and its applications; and the nature of knowledge, information and meaning as relevant to information systems. He has published over 80 papers in these areas in journals such as the Information Systems Research, The Sociological Review, Information Systems Journal, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Systems Practice, Management Learning and Organization. He has published the first comprehensive study of autopoiesis - Self-Producing Systems: Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis (Plenum, 1995), and has also edited Multimethodology: the Theory and Practice of Combining Management Science Methodologies (Wiley, 1997, with Tony Gill), Information Systems: an Emerging Discipline? (McGraw Hill, 1997, with Prof. Frank Stowell), and Rational Analysis for a Problematic World Revisited (Wiley, 2001, with Prof. Jonathan Rosenhead). He is currently editing, with Leslie Willcocks, a book titled Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems (Wiley, 2004)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Realising Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science
Authors: John Mingers
Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29841-X
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-28188-9Published: 02 June 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3929-6Published: 23 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-29841-2Published: 13 September 2006
Series ISSN: 1568-2846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 312
Topics: Knowledge Management, Business and Management, general, Operations Research/Decision Theory, IT in Business, Organization, Sociology, general