Back to the future: A critique of Demetis and Lee's 'Crafting theory to satisfy the requirements of systems science'
| Autor: | John Mingers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Multimethodology 05 social sciences Critical realism (philosophy of the social sciences) 02 engineering and technology Library and Information Sciences Management Information Systems System dynamics Epistemology Range (mathematics) 020204 information systems Management of Technology and Innovation Systems science 0502 economics and business 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Systems thinking Soft systems methodology Sociology 050203 business & management Information Systems Critical systems thinking |
| Zdroj: | Information and Organization. 27:67-71 |
| ISSN: | 1471-7727 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.infoandorg.2017.01.003 |
| Popis: | Demetis and Lee's paper outlines criteria for constructing theory in accordance with systems science. This is a laudable aim but in this comment I suggest that their view of systems thinking is both narrow and somewhat dated. Demetis and Lee equate systems science with only one aspect of it – General Systems Thinking (GST) – and they discuss in detail only one theorist – Niklas Luhmann. I draw attention to a range of other systems approaches including system dynamics, soft systems methodology, complexity theory, critical systems thinking, critical realism and multimethodology. I conclude with tentative guidelines of my own. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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