Wisdom, Knowledge, and Management:

A Critique and Analysis of Churchman's Systems Approach
1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4419-2251-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 616 g

Reihe: C. West Churchman's Legacy and Related Works

The Systems Approach and Its Enemies (C. West Churchman, 1979) is one of Churchman’s most significant works. In this particular writing he displayed two main tendencies, that he was a Skeptic and that he showed Socratic Wisdom. In this book the editors seeks to follow up on these two themes and reveal how modern authors interpret Churchman’s ideas, apply them to their own line of thinking and develop their own brand of Systemics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gigch, John P. Van

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensforschung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Literatur für Manager
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Operations Research
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Wissensmanagement
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Wisdom, Knowledge and Management.- Progress Achieving C. West Churchman’s Epistemological Program.- The Paradigm of the Science of Management and of Management Science.- Churchman’s Contributions to the Advancement of Management Science.- Expanding Churchman’s Philosophical Discourse.- Skepticism, Truth, Certitude and Wicked Problems.- Certitude in a Post-Modern World?.- Addressing Complex Decision Problems in Distributed Environments.- Epistemic Humility.- Setting the Tone: The Importance of Ethics.- In Search of an Ethical Science.- Ethics and Enlightened Personal Responsibility.- May the Whole Earth Be Happy.- Entrepreneurship.- An Outline of a Descriptive Theory of the Enterprise.- Organizational Efficiency and Values.- New Paradigms: Applications of the Science of Management to Governance and Managerial Practice.- Molar and Molecular Identity and Politics.- Education for Engaged Citizenship.- Dialogue for Conscious Evolution.- The Use of New Metaphors to Refocus the Managerial Discourse.- Making Friends of Enemies.- The Application of an Epistemological Inquiry to Increase Our Understanding of Complex Issues.- Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

John P. van Gigch is the Series Editor for the Book Series Churchman’s Legacy and Related Works which he was instrumental in getting started. van Gigch knew West Churchman as well as his family personally. Churchman wrote an Introduction for van Gigch’s which was published in 1974, with a Second Edition in 1978. van Gigch remained close to West Churchman after the latter retired from the University of California-Berkeley. Right to the end, they celebrated several of West’s birthdays together.