This volume offers comprehensive treatment of the latest developments in critical systems thinking and practice. The book features contributions by researchers at the prestigious Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull, England. The emphasis is on rigorous analysis of the wide range...

1 Introduction -- Start of Argument -- 2 Liberating Systems Theory -- 3 Interpretive Analytics and Knowledge-Constitutive Interests: Liberate and Critique -- 4 On ‘System’: Conceptual Anti-Reflexivity (Strand 1) -- 5 On ‘System’: Abstract and Paradigmatic Conceptions (Strand 2) -- 6 On...

The Second Edition features expanded coverage of progress in systems science, focusing on the field's overall structure and its components - including systems terms and concepts, complexity, measurements, and principles. The text offers a framework for understanding the underlying theory of...

Section 1 Systems Thinking and Theory -- Systems Thinking and Theory -- The Systems Study of Human Action in a Real World -- Researching Systems Methodology: Some Future Prospects -- Systems Thinking In the Study of Culture -- System Dynamics — The Next Ten Years -- An Overview of Accounting...