Synergy Matters

Edited by Adrian M. Castell, Amanda J. Gregory, Giles A. Hindle, Mathew E. James and Gillian Ragsdell

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Date: 1999
ISBN: 978-0-306-47467-5
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Seeing Systems: Overcoming Organisational Fragmentation

Raul Espejo

Ch 2 Fighting Failure

Joyce Fortune

Ch 3 Critical Management Education: A Critical Issue?

John Mingers

Ch 4 Putting Systems Theory to Work — The Synergy Between Theory and Practice

Richard J. Ormerod

Ch 5 Making Sense of Chaos — Systems and the Information Society

Frank Stowell

Ch 6 Translating Production Quality Data for Use in the Improvement Process

Alan J. Beckett, Charles E.R. Wainwright and David Bance

Ch 7 Using Systems Concepts to Research the Implications of Emerging Information Technologies (ITs) for Pedagogy in Higher Education (HE)

W. F. Ian Beggs

Ch 8 Rich Pictures, Metaphors and Stories as Mechanisms to Improve Collective Actions

Alvaro Carrizosa

Ch 9 A Novel Approach to Quantify Agricultural Sustainability Using Fuzzy Set Theory

A.M.G. Cornelissen

Ch 10 Applied Artificial Intelligence and the Management of Knowledge

Colquhoun-John Ferguson and Scott Goldie

Ch 11 Diversity Management and Organisational Change

Guangming Cao, Steve Clarke and Brian Lehaney

Ch 12 Understranding Interorganisational Health and Social Service Groups: Would Alternative Metaphors of Systems Help?

Pam Hearne

Ch 13 Beyond the Golden Rule: Emencipatory Practice and Change in Organisations

Marion Helme

Ch 14 Synergy Between Humans and Software Agents

Petri Jooste

Ch 15 The Application of Internet Technologies to Information Management

Peter G. Lee and Wainwright C.E.r

Ch 16 An Introduction to Cybernetic Viability Study (CVS)

Min Li and Wei-hua Jin

Ch 17 A Multicultural Perspective on Integrating Non-native Speaking Students into the Community in Vienna/Austria and Texas/U.S.A.: A Preliminary Report

Eva Linton-Kubelka

Ch 18 Chaos and Complexity — The Way to Transform Organisations Ready for the Next Century: Insights from a Case Stufy of the Open University

Elizabeth McMillan-Parsons

Ch 19 A Discussion on Complementarism and Its Stance Towards Paradigms

Andrés D. Mejía and Petri Jooste

Ch 20 A Systems View of Intellectual Capital

Gary S. Metcalf

Ch 21 Applying Muller-Merbach’s Framework to System Acceptance

Danita Morrison

Ch 22 Co-Constructing the Methodology: Learning from Practice with ‘Wide Band’ GDSS

Paulo Nunes de Abreu

Ch 23 An Exploration of the Potential of Systems Methodologies for Approaching Organisations Operating at the Edge of Chaos

María Carolina Ortegón Monroy

Ch 24 Group Support Through Restricted Conversations

Hector Ponce

Ch 25 Modelling Complex Decision-Making

Susan A Smith

Ch 26 Discourse, Calibration, Explanation and Evolution: Implications for Computer-Based Systems Development

David C Sutton

Ch 27 Weak Incommensurability and the Development of Systems Thinking

David Watson and Paul Ledington

Ch 28 How Prevalent is Systems Thinking in the Methods, Tools and Techniques Used in Project Management?

Diana White

Ch 29 Soft Systems Methodology: Its Potential for Emancipatory Development

V.N. Callo and R.G. Packham

Ch 30 Issues in the Conduct of Research Through Intervention in Real-World Affairs

P.J. Dunning-Lewis

Ch 31 Acronym Happy — Applying SSM to the CSA

Misha Hebel and Adam T. Muggleton

Ch 32 The Poverty of Action Research in Inrormation Systems

Judy McKay and Peter Marshall

Ch 33 Atlantic Crossings: A Genealogical Analysis of the Relationship between Systems Thinking and Action Research in the United Kingdom

Stephen. K. Probert

Ch 34 Exploring Links between Action Research (AR) and “Alternatives”

Norma R.A. Romm

Ch 35 Changing Organizational Culture by Means of the Activities of Hierarchical Poly-Agent Organizations

Hirokazu Tanaka

Ch 36 All in the Mind — Heuristics, Models, Systens and Business Advice

John Hassall and Kevin Mole

Ch 37 A Systemic Approach to Change Management in Anglian Water Engineering

Brian Keegan and Rod Athey-Pollard

Ch 38 Understanding How Concerns for the Natural Environment are Integrated into Prectical Strategic Decision Making: An Application of Ashby’s Law

Gerard J. Lewis and Neil Stewart

Ch 39 A Pluralist Approach Towards Integration of Quality and Environmentalmanagement, Leading to Sustainable Development

T. McEwan and D. Petkov

Ch 40 Process Management

Eugene H. Melan

Ch 41 The Problems of the Lyric Theatres in London — A Systems Perspective

Lawrence R. P. Reavill

Ch 42 Some Reflections on Practice: What did I Think I was Doing When I Joined Systems Design Conversation Groups?

Sylvia M. Brown

Ch 43 Synergy: A Spirtual Issue in the Context of Change Management Systems

Cathal M. Brugha

Ch 44 Administrative Science Quarterly: Canary of Worldview Shift?

Eric B. Dent and Edward H. Powley

Ch 45 Does the Queen have Magical Powers: Leadership & Systems in the 21st Century

Ernest L. Hughes

Ch 46 Taming the Problems of Hypermobility Through Synergy

C. Jotin Khisty and P. S. Sriraj

Ch 47 Change Management and Information Systems

Roger Stewart

Ch 48 Service Integration, Human Services Collaboration, and Computer Supported Co-Operative Work

Ken Udas

Ch 49 A Systemic Analysis of Process Oriented Change

Jan T. Wilton and Lawrence R.P. Reavill

Ch 50 Convivial Information Systems

Ian Beeson

Ch 51 Enabling Older People: Developing a Social Services-Owned System

Martin Booy and Gail Boniface

Ch 52 Achieving Policy Synergies: The Case of Reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy

Susan Carr

Ch 53 Sustainability of Primary Health Care: A Systems Approach

Gautam Chakraborty

Ch 54 Is the Systems Approach a Precedent of the Development Approach?

Gustavo C. González

Ch 55 Towards a Methodology for the Management of Community Arts Projects

Richard Kamm

Ch 56 Synergy in ‘Learning Citizen-Groups’ Using Teleogenic Systems Methodology

C. Jotin Khisty, Lena L. Khisty, R. Keith Ellis and P. S. Sriraj

Ch 57 After Justice: On the Conditions of Possibility of Justice in the Present

Hernán López-Garay and Ricardo Sotaquirá

Ch 58 Identity and Boundary Management in Synergistic Relationships

Yasmin Merali

Ch 59 Shaping a Local Community Information Systems Support Infrastructure Using a Collaborative Approach

Nick Plant, Morris Williams and Anne Moggridge

Ch 60 Information Within the (Human) System: Considerations of Freedom, Power and Order

Antonín Rosický

Ch 61 Community Matters: Community Operational Research Work on Health Needs on the Stonebridge Estate

Leroy White

Ch 62 The Life Flux, Synergy and Multiple Paradigm Methodology

Jack A. Castle

Ch 63 Critica Theory as a Foundation for Strategic Management

Steve Clarke, Brian Lehaney and Yongmei Nie

Ch 64 Dealing with Power in Organisational Intervention: The Place of Methodology

Brian Lehaney and Steve Clarke

Ch 65 Interdisciplinarity, Systems and Totality: Some Anti-Systemic Motifs in the Thought of Benjamin and Adorno

M.W.J. Spaul

Ch 66 Linking Methodological Complementarism with the Theory of Joint Alliances

Maurice Yolles

Ch 67 Metaphors for Systemic Intervention

Rosalind Armson

Ch 68 Maturana’s Notion of Phenomenic Reductionism and Its Implications for SSM

John Brocklesby and John Mingers

Ch 69 Retaining and Maintaining Soft System Models

David W. Bustard, Raymond Oakes and Desmond D. Vincent

Ch 70 Implementation Concerns in Soft-Systems Interventions: Some Lessons Fron Interactive Management

A. R. Cardenas, F. R. Janes and G. Otalora1

Ch 71 Operational Synergy and Meta-Methodology in the Prison Service

Jack A. Castle and Steve Crago

Ch 72 Purposefulness and Complexity-Grappling Capability: Some Preliminary Propositions

Indranil Chakrabarti and Sheila R. Chakrabarti

Ch 73 Monitoring, Evaluation and Dissemination Management Idea, Wuli-Shili-Renli Systems Approach and Their Application

J.F. Gu and F. Gao

Ch 74 Choice of Model or Model of Choice?—Systems Thinking and the Phenomenology of Decision Making

John Hassall

Ch 75 Bottom up Thinking

Bill Hutchinson

Ch 76 A Systems Thinking Model for Economic Management the Case of Tanzania

Diodorus Kamala

Ch 77 Measures of Performance: The Three Es of Soft Systems Methodology and the Indices of Performance of the Viable System Model

Alberto Paucar-Caceres

Ch 78 New Light Through Old Windows — But Is It the Right Kind of Light?

Geoff Peters and Joyce Fortune

Ch 79 Intersubjectivty in Interpretive Research: The Dialogical Case

Robert Stephens

Ch 80 Towards Synergy in the Search for Multi-Perspective Systems Approaches

Zhichang Zhu

Ch 81 Peering into Ourselves: Critical Rellections on Peer Learning

Susan J Byrne and Judith McMorland

Ch 83 Using SSM in Designing a New Nursing Informatics Curriculum

Peter Kokol

Ch 84 Teaching Systems at the Open University: Reconceptualising the Curriculum by Creating Meaningful Conversations

Andy Lane

Ch 85 Using Multimedia to Teach Systems Thinking

Sheila S. Stone

Ch 86 Synergy of the’ soft’ and ‘Hard’ Sciences for Improving Information Systems

Joseph Akomode

Ch 87 What is the Point of Working in an Industrt Where there is a Better than Evens Chance of Your Work being Shelved?

Steve Armstrong and Aidan Ward

Ch 88 Rapid and Participatory is Analysis and Design: A Means to Defy the ‘Anatomy of Confusion’?

Simon Bell

Ch 89 Culture, Ideas, Idiosyncrasy

Malcolm K. Crowe and Sandy Kydd

Ch 90 A Knowledge Representation Approach to Computer-Based Support for Soft Systems Analysis

Quan C. Dang

Ch 91 An Analysis of ‘Fan Traps’ in an Eer Schema by Using a Set of ‘Info Concepts’

Junkang Feng

Ch 92 The Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aspects of Information Systems Evaluation

Misha Hebel and Chris Davis

Ch 93 “We Focus on the Parts and Ignore the Whole”: The Story of Information Systems Teaching at Our Universities

Brian Hopkins

Ch 94 A Systemic Model for Participatory Change in Information Systems Management

Andy Hyde

Ch 95 Information and Communication Technology: Tacit Knowledge and Innovation

Jon-Arild Johannessen and Bjørn Olsen

Ch 96 Qualitative Modelling of Information Systems

J Korn

Ch 97 Poly-agent Systems Theory: Evolution Model and its Applications

Kyoichi Kijima

Ch 98 What Drives the Developmnet of an International Information System? a Grounded Theory Investigation

Hans Lehmann

Ch 99 Electronic Commerce: More Hype Than Substance?

Peter Marshall and Judy McKay

Ch 100 Workflow for Inter-Organisational Environments

Roger M Tagg

Ch 101 Research and Reality: Co-Exist or Co-Inhabit?

Sam Waters, George Bakehouse and Kevin Doyle

Ch 102 An Empirical Study of EIS Satisfaction — some Preliminary Findings

Xianzhong M. Xu

Ch 103 Self-Space and Vision

Louis Jacques Filion

Ch 104 Organizational Learning and Improvement Based on the Art of Business Coaching

M. Adrian Flores

Ch 105 Educating the Knowledge Worker

James G. Howell

Ch 106 More Metaphors for Organisational Teams

Lawrence Reavill and Chris Brady

Ch 107 Synergy in a Complex and Post-Modern World

R. G. Bob Saunders

Ch 108 Managing Learning and Knowledge During I.S. Development in an Autopoietic Organisation: Implications from the Literature

Clive Savory

Ch 109 On Redistributing Values: A Management Methodology

Martha Vahl and Gerard de Zeeuw

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