Understranding Interorganisational Health and Social Service Groups: Would Alternative Metaphors of Systems Help?

Pam Hearne
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Pam Hearne: Lancaster University, The Management School

Chapter 12 in Synergy Matters, 2002, pp 67-71 from Springer

Abstract: Conclution During the period of the development of the PhD work various alternative metaphors of systems have aided the sensemaking process. They have generated new insights into a complex situation helping the author to clarify her thinking. The work has been focused through their use. The author believes that continued conscious attention to “the largely unexamined assumptions” (Atkinson and Checkland,1988) about systems in structuring and carrying out her work will facilitate understanding of an important current social phenomenon; interorganisational health and social service groups.

Keywords: Soft System Methodology; Public Sector Organisation; Social Service Organisation; Sensemaking Process; Primary Care Group (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1007/0-306-47467-0_12

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