This book aims to rethink systemic intervention to enhance its relevance for supporting social change in the 21st century. It offers a new systems philosophy and methodology, focusing upon the fundamental importance of exploring value and boundary judgements as part of the intervention process. It includes four detailed examples of the practice of systemic intervention.
This book aims to rethink systemic intervention to enhance its relevance for supporting social change in the 21st century. It offers a n...
Community Operational Research: OR and Systems Thinking for Community Development sets out the current concerns of Community Operational Research (Community OR for short) and explores new possibilities for its continued development. Leading Community OR writers, with international reputations in operational research and systems thinking, have contributed chapters that illuminate different aspects of Community OR theory and practice. There is a focus on the value of systems approaches, and other significant perspectives are also represented. The result is a rich mix of...
Community Operational Research: OR and Systems Thinking for Community Development sets out the current concerns of Community Opera...
Systems Thinking brings together classic and contemporary writings that cross the entire breadth of the systems field. The four-volume setincludes the most influential theoretical papers, as well as applications in domains as diverse as global environmental modelling, business strategy, public sector planning, family therapy and the management of organizations.
Key critiques of the leading writers allow the researcher to understand how and why paradigm breaks took place, and to grasp the extraordinary diversification of systems theory and practice we see today.
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Systems Thinking brings together classic and contemporary writings that cross the entire breadth of the systems field. The four-volume set <...
Welcome to Volume 9 To begin this new look volume of E: CO we have, among others, brought together a special collection of papers and articles that are drawn from no less than three recent complexity conferences. All of the academic and practitioner section papers were selected from the recent ANZSYS/ISCE collaboration that resulted in the International 11th ANZSYS / Managing the Complex V conference that was held December 5-7, 2005 in Christchurch, New Zealand. The purpose of this event was to provide a lively forum for discussion and debate for a wide range of academics and practitioners...
Welcome to Volume 9 To begin this new look volume of E: CO we have, among others, brought together a special collection of papers and articles that a...
Drawing upon their own groundbreaking research, the authors demonstrate that major assumptions about science influence how forensic DNA evidence is interpreted by police officers, lawyers, forensic scientists, and jurors.
Drawing upon their own groundbreaking research, the authors demonstrate that major assumptions about science influence how forensic DNA evidence is in...
This book aims to rethink systemic intervention to enhance its relevance for supporting social change in the 21st century. It offers a new systems philosophy and methodology, focusing upon the fundamental importance of exploring value and boundary judgements as part of the intervention process. It includes four detailed examples of the practice of systemic intervention.
This book aims to rethink systemic intervention to enhance its relevance for supporting social change in the 21st century. It offers a n...
"This is the book I have been waiting for. Community OperationalResearch has shown that analysis can be used not only for, but also with, community groups, helping them to gain more control of their situations. What Midgley and Ochoa-Arias' volume does is provide not only rich examples of grass-roots practice, but also thought-provoking theoretical explorations. The editors have a point of view, but they allow space for debate with those who interpret Community OR differently." Jonathan Rosenhead (Emeritus Professor of Operational Research, London...
"This is the book I have been waiting for. Community OperationalResearch has shown that analysis can be used not only for, but also...
