Systems Methodology for the Management Sciences

Jackson, Michael

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“…, 1997Jackson (e.g. , 1999; see also Keys, 1984, andFlood andJackson, 1991) and, closer to my understanding of critical research and practice, by G. Midgley (e.g. 1992bMidgley (e.g.…”

Section: Methodological Pluralismmentioning

confidence: 90%

The quest for competence in systemic research and practice

Ulrich

2001

Syst. Res.

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How can we develop competence in research and professional practice? This essay tries to answer the question from the perspective of critical systems thinking, that is, through an approach that aims to promote reflective research and practice. The paper originated in discussions on the nature of research, with research students and professionals from different fields -among these the domains of business and public management, operational research and management science, social planning and evaluation research, public health, poverty research, social work and social policy, environmental research, city and regional planning, adult education and civic studies. With its publication the author hopes to encourage a wide readership of research students, researchers, and professionals in these and other fields of practice who wish to clarify their personal notion of competence. The essay addresses them in a direct and personal way.

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“…, 1997Jackson (e.g. , 1999; see also Keys, 1984, andFlood andJackson, 1991) and, closer to my understanding of critical research and practice, by G. Midgley (e.g. 1992bMidgley (e.g.…”

Section: Methodological Pluralismmentioning

confidence: 90%

The quest for competence in systemic research and practice

Ulrich

2001

Syst. Res.

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“…This paper follows Jackson's (1991a) broader use of the term methodology whereby methodology refers to methods for exploring and gaining knowledge about systems. It is therefore prescriptive in nature.…”

Section: Systems Thinking Methodologiesmentioning

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“…Affected people do not always fully comprehend their position in society due to a lack of knowledge. They cannot represent themselves adequately in a problem solution environment such as SSM and it is the role of the "critical theorist to employ a social theory capable of explaining the alienated world and actions of oppressed groups in society" (Jackson 1991a). …”

Section: Soft Systems Thinking In Information Systems Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Practitioner-based research in Information Systems

Averweg

Kroeze

2012

TDSA

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Information systems and in particular data warehouses are very expensive systems to develop. It is therefore not advisable to experiment with ideas too different from current practices. This makes it difficult to apply prescriptive theories in an existing field. From theoretical considerations one might want to develop a data warehouse according to another method such as critical systems thinking methodology. It is however very difficult to persuade data warehouse practitioners to attempt such an experiment. This might be because they would rather adhere to known practices or that they are not sufficiently knowledgeable on critical systems thinking (or any other prescriptive theory) to apply it to such an expensive project. This paper describes a method in which prescriptive theories may be used descriptively to analyse their applicability in a specific field of application. The proposed method is used to understand the practices of the data warehouse discipline from the perspectives of the systems thinking discipline. It is also indicated how this method could be used in other studies where the behaviour of participants is viewed from a point of view of which the detail are unknown to the participants.

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“…Jackson [19] and Luhmann [20] use Habermas' hermeneutics theory to explain complex behaviour and preference formation in complex organizations.…”

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Agriculture as Social Wellbeing System in Food Security: An Epistemological Study

Choudhury¹,

Abbas²

2017

TEL

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The theme of agriculture as system though it is commonly understood is an innovative area of research and erudition. It involves both a technical meaning of system and cybernetic as these arise in respect of their epistemological meaning of unity of knowledge in highly complementary orders; as well as some of the wellbeing implications are studied in methodological way within the substantive context of system and cybernetic. The result then is a scientific, technical, and social development of the theme of agriculture as system for the common human good. Within this meaningful connotation, the economics of agriculture is invoked. This area is further extended to the broader field of ecology, resource, and environment inter-causal linkages within and between them. The treatment of agriculture as system and cybernetic study then leads into methodological and mathematical formalism that can be formulated as a model of evaluation of wellbeing subject to simulacra of multidimensional variable interrelationship. With data searched by the researchers in further studies in this area of agriculture system, the wellbeing simulation subject to circular causation between the multidimensional variables can be empirically evaluated using sophisticated statistical programs. Resulting policy and inter-system results can be analyzed to derive socioeconomic inferences. A plethora of further technical studies with the methodological features of system and cybernetic study can be derived.

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Systems Methodology for the Management Sciences

Cited by 452 publications

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The quest for competence in systemic research and practice

The quest for competence in systemic research and practice

Practitioner-based research in Information Systems

Agriculture as Social Wellbeing System in Food Security: An Epistemological Study

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