The author thoroughly describes and analyzes the most significant systems methodologies-`organizations as systems,' hard, soft, cybernetic, and critical-and demonstrates the complementary strengths of different systems approaches

I Introduction -- 1. Autopoiesis, configuration and steering: impossibility theorem or dynamic steering theory -- 2. Introduction to configuration approach: a process theory for societal steering -- 3. Introduction to autopoiesis theory and autopoietic steering -- II Configuration Theory -- 4....