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- Bergvall-Kåreborn, Birgitta, et al.
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Expanding the framework for monitor and control in soft systems methodology
- 1996
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Ingår i: Systems Practice. - 0894-9859. ; 9:5, s. 469-495
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) has been criticized for its interpretivistic stance by, among others, Critical systems thinkers. By locating problems inherent in the techniques of SSM, this paper proposes an expanded theoretical framework, concerning measure of performance in the conceptual models. The expansion is based on the theories behind Multi-Modal Methodology and has resulted in a new model of performance indicators for the design.
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- de Raadt, J.D.R.
(författare)
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A sketch for humane operational research in a technological society
- 1997
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Ingår i: Systems Practice. - 0894-9859. ; 10:4, s. 421-441
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is based on my presidential address to the Swedish Operational Research Society 1996 Conference. It starts with a statement affirming the critical need to incorporate virtues and norms in the management and operation of our institutions. With the help of multimodal systems thinking and Stafford Beer's Viable Systems Model, it builds a framework that allows the transfer of such things as faith, love, and wisdom into the operation of our social systems and their management. The article concludes with the placing of operational research and management theory within this framework and with a challenge to all operational researchers to work for new modeling techniques that will contribute to a more virtuous and humane society.
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- De Raadt, J.D.R.
(författare)
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Faith and the normative foundation of systems science
- 1997
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Ingår i: Systems Practice. - 0894-9859. ; 10:1, s. 13-35
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The object of this inquiry is threefold. Firstly, it reviews the historical process through which science has become depersonalised and secularised. Secondly, it investigates the normative consequences of this. Thirdly, it proposes a way to integrate thought as part of our person and as part of our experience of God and the universe.
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- Nilsson, Anders, et al.
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Business ethics and systems thinking
- 1997
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Ingår i: Systems Practice. - 0894-9859. ; 10:4, s. 491-505
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses the development of research in business ethics and recent directions taken by scholars in the field. We also analyze ethical considerations in systems theory and speculate on the possibilities of examining business ethics from a systemic perspective.
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