Deals with the contribution of a systems approach to a range of disciplines from philosophy and biology to social theory and management. This book is of interest to scholars in philosophy, biology, information systems, communications, social theory, management science and operational research as...

Theories of knowledge are critical to practical reasoning. Nevertheless, most students of management pay little or no attention to the disciplines that deal most directly with questions about knowledge, its origins, and its nature: epistemology primarily, but the philosophy of science and other...