Outline of Complex Systems Management Theory—Based on Irreversibility of Reductionism Thinking
Author: Zhaohan Sheng
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9819733618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Zhaohan Sheng
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9819733618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Zhaohan Sheng
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2024-08-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789819733590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, for the first time, proposes the complex systems management theory based on the integration of complex systems theory and management science to solve the overall complexity problem that cannot be dealt with by the reductionism approach. This theory not only provides a new way of thinking, but also introduces a novel logic for cognition, which has significant academic novelty and practical implications. In particular, by illustrating many real cases, it explains how to apply the complex systems management theory and contribute to practice. This book aims to build complex system management as a new integrated and fundamental concept in the field of management science that has significant potential, which has clear and important academic connotations. It develops a big-data-driven modeling technique for complex system scenarios based on the latest information technology to improve the ability of complex systems management theory in coping with the complexity of real problems. This book provides a new paradigm of thinking, a body of knowledge, and management tools for scholars and practitioners to analyze and solve problems with complex integrity.
Author: Jean-Alain Heraud
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-12-31
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1119575117
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a general presentation of complex systems, examined from the point of view of management. There is no standard formula to govern such systems, nor to effectively understand and respond to them. The interdisciplinary theory of self-organization is teeming with examples of living systems that can reorganize at a higher level of complexity when confronted with an external challenge of a certain magnitude. Modern businesses, considered as complex systems, ideally know how to flexibly and resiliently adapt to their environment, and also how to prepare for change via self-organization. Understanding sources of potential crisis is essential for leaders, though not all crises are necessarily bad news, as creative firms know how to respond to challenges through innovation: new products and markets, organizational learning for collective intelligence, and more.
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Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2011-05-23
Total Pages: 951
ISBN-13: 0080931227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The domain of nonlinear dynamical systems and its mathematical underpinnings has been developing exponentially for a century, the last 35 years seeing an outpouring of new ideas and applications and a concomitant confluence with ideas of complex systems and their applications from irreversible thermodynamics. A few examples are in meteorology, ecological dynamics, and social and economic dynamics. These new ideas have profound implications for our understanding and practice in domains involving complexity, predictability and determinism, equilibrium, control, planning, individuality, responsibility and so on.Our intention is to draw together in this volume, we believe for the first time, a comprehensive picture of the manifold philosophically interesting impacts of recent developments in understanding nonlinear systems and the unique aspects of their complexity. The book will focus specifically on the philosophical concepts, principles, judgments and problems distinctly raised by work in the domain of complex nonlinear dynamical systems, especially in recent years. -Comprehensive coverage of all main theories in the philosophy of Complex Systems -Clearly written expositions of fundamental ideas and concepts -Definitive discussions by leading researchers in the field -Summaries of leading-edge research in related fields are also included
Author: Donella Meadows
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2008-12-03
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1603581480
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide! "This is a fabulous book... This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing."—Forbes "Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind."—Hunter Lovins In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet—Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.
Author: Sunny Y. Auyang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780521778268
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analyzes approaches to the study of complexity in the physical, biological, and social sciences.
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Published: 1972-09
Total Pages: 60
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Author: Paul Cilliers
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781501510793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The publications in this series deal with current topics in the fields of philosophy, natural science, cognitive science, and mathematics. They are particularly interested in investigating the multiple ways in which the nature of these fields has changed over the centuries, leaving the conceptual framework inaugurated by Galilei and Descartes.
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Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2012-10-09
Total Pages: 3870
ISBN-13: 0080471714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Available online via SciVerse ScienceDirect, or in print for a limited time only, The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Seven Volume Set is the first international reference work for housing scholars and professionals, that uses studies in economics and finance, psychology, social policy, sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, law, and other disciplines to create an international portrait of housing in all its facets: from meanings of home at the microscale, to impacts on macro-economy. This comprehensive work is edited by distinguished housing expert Susan J. Smith, together with Marja Elsinga, Ong Seow Eng, Lorna Fox O'Mahony and Susan Wachter, and a multi-disciplinary editorial team of 20 world-class scholars in all. Working at the cutting edge of their subject, liaising with an expert editorial advisory board, and engaging with policy-makers and professionals, the editors have worked for almost five years to secure the quality, reach, relevance and coherence of this work. A broad and inclusive table of contents signals (or tesitifes to) detailed investigation of historical and theoretical material as well as in-depth analysis of current issues. This seven-volume set contains over 500 entries, listed alphabetically, but grouped into seven thematic sections including methods and approaches; economics and finance; environments; home and homelessness; institutions; policy; and welfare and well-being. Housing professionals, both academics and practitioners, will find The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home useful for teaching, discovery, and research needs. International in scope, engaging with trends in every world region The editorial board and contributors are drawn from a wide constituency, collating expertise from academics, policy makers, professionals and practitioners, and from every key center for housing research Every entry stands alone on its merits and is accessed alphabetically, yet each is fully cross-referenced, and attached to one of seven thematic categories whose ‘wholes' far exceed the sum of their parts
Author: Nicola Labanca
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-05-02
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 331933753X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the fundamental issues concerning policies for sustainable transition to renewable energies from the perspectives of sociologists, physicists, engineers, economists, anthropologists, biologists, ecologists and policy analysts. Adopting a combined approach, these are analysed taking both complex systems and social practice theories into consideration to provide deeper insights into the evolution of energy systems. The book then draws a series of important conclusions and makes recommendations for the research community and policy makers involved in the design and implementation of policies for sustainable energy transitions.