Systemic View and Systems Thinking

Kaj U. Koskinen
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Kaj U. Koskinen: Tampere University of Technology

Chapter Chapter 3 in Knowledge Production in Organizations, 2013, pp 13-30 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A systemic view is the view that all systems are composed of interrelated subsystems. A whole is not just the sum of the parts, but the system itself can be explained only as a totality. The systemic view is, then, the opposite of reductionism, which views the total as the sum of its individual parts. In traditional organization theory, as well as in many of the sciences, the subsystems have been studied separately, with a view to putting the parts together into a whole at some later point. The systemic view emphasizes that this is not possible and that the starting point has to be the total system.

Keywords: Closed System; Emergent Property; System Element; System Thinking; Systemic View (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00104-3_3

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