Systems for Sustainability

by Stowell, Frank A.; Ison, R. L.; Armson, Rosalind; Holloway, Jacky; Jackson, Sue; McRobb, Steve

• ISBN13: 9780306456152
• ISBN10: 030645615X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Table of Contents

Plenary	1	(20)
1. Learning to Persist: A Systemic View of Development	1	(6)
Richard Bawden
2. Politics for Sustainability	7	(8)
Margaret Blunden
3. Requirements Analysis for Information Systems: The QUICKethics Approach	15	(6)
Enid Mumford
Systems for Environmental Sustainability	21	(82)
4. Using Systems for Sustainability in the Context of Agenda 21	21	(6)
Christine Blackmore
5. Coping with Environmental Uncertainty by Social Learning: The Case of Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation in Europe	27	(6)
Susan Carr
Les Levidow
6. Putting Sustainability into Practice in Agricultural Research for Development	33	(6)
P. G. Cox
N. D. MacLeod
A. D. Shulman
7. Proletku'lt, Revolution, and Tektology: Systemness as a Factor of Sustainability	39	(4)
Peter Dudley
Simona Pustylink
8. The Integration of Systemic and Scientific Thinking in the Development of an Innovative Process for Environmental Management	43	(8)
James Frederickson
Norah Frederickson
9. The Practical Use of Systems Methodologies in Environmental Management	51	(6)
W. E. Hutchinson
10. Sustainability and Systems Thinking: The Coevolution of Communities and Technological Infrastructures	57	(6)
Paul Jeffrey
Roger Seaton
Mark Lemon
11. Sustainable Intervention: Systems Thinking for Chinese Environmental Management	63	(4)
Wei Hua Jin
12. Sustainable Transport Development in Developing Countries: Using Systemic Thinking and a Global Perspective	67	(6)
C. Jotin Khisty
13. The Assessment and Management of Wildlife Areas: What Can Systems Offer?	73	(6)
Andrew Lane
Sue Oreszczyn
14. Emergent Practice in Agricultural Research: Using Metaphors and Dialogue to Create a Space for Understandings	79	(6)
David McClintock
Stephany Kersten
Ray Ison
15. Movement and Sustainability: Other Ways of Thinking about Environments	85	(6)
Ingrid Molderez
16. The Technology of Sustainable Agricultural Systems	91	(6)
R. M. Morris
17. Sustainability and Viability	97	(6)
Neil Stewart
Gerard Lewis
Reflections of Systems Thinking and Practice	103	(60)
18. The Invisible Practitioner or the Holistic Practitioner? The Problem Helper in the Problem Situation	103	(6)
R. Armson
19. Occupational Therapy: A Profession Sustained through Systems Science	109	(6)
Martin Booy
Gail Boniface
20. If System Thinkers Are All So Smart, Why Ain't We Rich?	115	(4)
Peter Crossley
21. Sustainability of Systems Thinking and Practice in Organizations	119	(6)
J. P. Drinan
22. Modern Academic Myths	125	(6)
Joyce Fortune
John Hughes
23. In What Sense Do Systems Exist?	131	(6)
Martin Fricke
24. Systemic Approaches and Contingent Actions in Consultancy Intervention	137	(4)
John Hassall
25. Modelling the Process of Deciding in Real World Problems	141	(6)
Athena Marouda-Chatjoulis
Patrick Humphreys
26. Doing Research in the Social Domain: Concepts and Criteria	147	(6)
Martha Vahl
27. Virtual Self, Virtual Mind, Virtual World: Sustainable Future?	153	(4)
Elizabeth White
28. Critical Theory, Carl Jung, and Symbo-Construction in Soft Systems Rich Pictures: A Seminar for Reflective Practitioners	157	(6)
Mark Campbell Williams
Learning Organisation and Systems	163	(156)
29. Where Is the Observer in IT Strategy and Systems?	163	(8)
Steve Armstrong
Aidan Ward
30. A Systems View of Teaching and Learning: Technological Potential and Sustainable, Supported Open Learning	171	(6)
Simon Bell
Andrew Lane
31. Freeing Lifelong Learning Systems from Teaching Systems Thinking: Death to Pedagogy?	177	(8)
Sylvia M. Brown
32. Evaluating a Learning Organisations Initiative: In Search of New Approaches	185	(6)
Sylvia M. Brown
33. Designing Sustainable Sporting Organisations	191	(8)
John Davies
34. Life-Long Learning OK! But to What Future Learning Agenda?	199	(6)
Gordon Dyer
35. Charting Change--the Use of Systems Concepts in Distance Learning Based Management Education across Europe	205	(6)
Eion Farmer
Jacky Holloway
36. Application of a Data Mining System as an Aid to Organisational Learning	211	(6)
Colquhoun-John Ferguson
37. Towards a Proposal to Study the Policy Making Process at the Basic Educational Level in Colombia	217	(4)
Nidia Gil
38. The Contribution of Evaluation to Organizational Learning: Exploding the Myth	221	(6)
Amanda Gregory
39. Exploring Parallels between Quaker Beliefs and Systems Theory	227	(6)
Misha Hebel-Holehouse
40. Systems, Crafts, and Sustainability	233	(6)
J. G. Howell
J. G. Gammack
41. Autopoiesis: In Search for a Theory of Organisational Change	239	(6)
Jon-Arild Johannessen
42. Systems Thinking in U.K. Film Units	245	(6)
Linda Ludwin
David Wield
43. Bridging the `Output-Outcome' Gap in Sustainability R and D: A Fifth Generation R and D `Punctuated Arena' Model	251	(6)
N. D. MacLeod
A. D. Shulm
44. Learner-Centred Evaluation of Systems, Systems Courses, and Future Needs in Systems Learning	257	(6)
Paul Maiteny
Ray Ison
45. The Learning Cycle-Action Learning: Learning Organisation	263	(8)
The WL Group 1996
46. A Conceptual Framework for Self-Organization and Merging Processes in Social Systems	271	(6)
Gianfranco Minati
Maria Pietronilla Penna
Eliano Pessa
47. We've Said It's a Learning Organisation But Does It Know (and What Is It Anyway)?	277	(8)
Joy Murray
48. Time for a New Language, a New Discourse: A Native Proposition	285	(8)
Elizabeth McMillan Parsons
49. Towards Information Systems Sustainability in Community Organisations Using an Organisational Learning Approach	293	(6)
Nick Plant
50. Multi-Level Multi-Loop Organizational Learning in the Open University	299	(8)
Carol Russell
Geoff Peters
51. Orchestrating Discipline-Based Research and Learning: Why, When, and How	307	(6)
Joyce Tait
Dick Morris
Ray Ison
52. A Report on an Action-Research Project to Strengthen the Research Base in Primary and Community Care	313	(6)
Leroy White
Ann Taket
Critical Systems	319	(74)
53. Enhancing the Critical Reflection Mode of TSI	319	(8)
Mandy Brown
Jennifer Wilby
54. Lifeworld-System, Juridification, and Critical Entrepreneurship	327	(6)
Annies L. F. Foong
A. E. Ojuka-Onedo
John C. Oliga
55. Critical Approaches to Information Systems Development: Some Practical Implications	333	(6)
Brian Lehaney
Steve Clarke
56. Critical Systems Criteria for Evaluating Interventions	339	(6)
Gerald Midgley
57. Critical Pluralism and Multimethodology, Post Postmodernism	345	(8)
J. Mingers
58. Language in Its Communicative Action Form: Mediation of Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Language	353	(8)
Keiko Morita
59. The Idea of Emancipation in Total Systems Intervention: An Exploration	361	(6)
P. N. Murthy
V. Sudhir
U. Supriya
60. Exploring `Our Common Future': Generalised Interests and Specialised Discourses	367	(6)
M. W. J. Spaul
61. Social and Organisational Learning and Unlearning in a Different Key: An Introduction to the Principles of Critical Learning Theatre and Dialectical Inquiry	373	(8)
Susan Weil
62. Viable Inquiry Systems	381	(6)
Maurice Yolles
63. `Insider Control' and the Effects on Economic Systems: A Critical Review	387	(6)
Xiaokang Zhao
Wei-hua Jin
Methodology Use and Development	393	(138)
64. Investigations on the Influence of the Global System of Instrumental Civilization on the Global Economy and the Mathematical Approach for Soft Systems Analysis and Evaluation	393	(8)
Wiktor H. Adamkiewicz
65. Adding Structure to the Cultural Analysis of SSM	401	(6)
Andrew Barnden
Christina Lo
66. Systems Thinking and Gauging Sustainable Development	407	(6)
Simon Bell
Stephen Morse
67. An Investigation of Heuristics Used in the Construction of Conceptual Models	413	(8)
S. R. Boyle
R. Smith
K. Bluff
R. B. Watson
68. From Single to Multi-Paradigm Systems Research: The Cognitive Constraints	421	(6)
John Brocklesby
69. Participative Approaches for Dealing with Complexity: A Comparison between Interactive Management and Socio-Technical Systems Theory	427	(6)
A. R. Cardenas
G. Otalora
F. R. Janes
70. CVAM: A New Systems Methodology and Systemic Sustainability in an Engineering Company	433	(6)
Jack A. Castle
Shaun A. Spurrell
71. Managing Change Is a Human Process Which Intervention Approaches Often Ignore	439	(4)
Melvyn Chapman
72. Born Free in an Unfree World: A Five-Level Emancipatory Program	443	(6)
Jeremy K. H. Chia
John C. Oliga
Annies L. F. Foong
73. A Practical Project at HM Prison Hull: Total Systems Intervention or Total Systems Failure?	449	(6)
John Clayton
Wendy Gregory
74. Systemic Refocusing: A Strategy for Sustainability	455	(4)
Peter Dudley
John Hassall
75. Concerning Computer-Based Support Tools for the User of the Soft Systems Methodology	459	(6)
P. J. Dunning-Lewis
76. A Taxonomy of Heuristic Problem Solving	465	(6)
F. J. Garlick
S. Thompson
77. Rich Pictures: A Counselling Aid	471	(8)
F. J. Garlick
G. L. Leonard
78. Reflecting on the Use of SSM within Humberside TEC: A Special Focus on `Sustainability'	479	(6)
Giles A. Hindle
Michael C. Jackson
79. Theory of Organisations	485	(6)
J. Korn
80. Beyond Functional Decomposition in Soft Systems Methodology	491	(6)
J. Ledington
P. W. J. Ledington
81. Complementarity of Evaluation Methodologies in the Organization in Colombia	497	(4)
Clemencia Morales-Montejo
82. Spiralling into the Future	501	(6)
Graham Paton
83. Working Towards Sustainability through Creativity: Promotion of Critical Creativity as an Integral Component of Systems Methodologies	507	(6)
Gillian Ragsdell
84. Dialogism: A Bakhtinian Perspective on Communication	513	(6)
Robert Stephens
85. Total Systems Intervention: Reflections on Achieving Sustainability in a Complex Situation	519	(6)
Lorraine Warren
R. Keith Ellis
86. Risk Management and Project Failure	525	(6)
Diana White
IS Development	531	(110)
87. Improving Output Quality and Minimising Business Risks with a Holistic Approach to Organisational Information Systems Development	531	(6)
O. J. Akomode
88. Constructing End-User Design Environments: Implementing Client-Led Development	537	(6)
Richard B. Beeby
John G. Gammack
Malcolm K. Crowe
89. Soft Systems Methodology: A Metaphor for the Process of Data Analysis	543	(6)
Peter D. C. Bennetts
A. Trevor Wood-Harper
90. Business Analysis for Computing Purposes: One Analyst or Two?	549	(6)
David Bustard
Raymond Oakes
Desmond Vincent
91. Critical Approaches to Information Systems Development: A Theoretical Perspective	555	(6)
Steve Clarke
Brian Lehaney
92. Modelling Information Flow for IS Development	561	(6)
Jun-Kang Feng
93. Systems for Sustainability-or Sustainability for Systems?	567	(6)
J. Gilligan
94. Information Systems Methodologies: The Problem Rather Than the Solution?	573	(6)
J. B. Hopkins
95. Reasoning about Software System Design with SSM	579	(4)
Peter Kokol
96. Bridging the Gap between IS Definition and IS Specification	583	(6)
R. Lander
S. McRobb
F. A. Stowell
97. The Possibility of Linking SSM with Object-Oriented Information Systems Development	589	(6)
Ying Liang
98. Information, Systems, and Dasein	595	(6)
Yasmin Merali
99. A Critical Analysis of the Thesis that Systems Are Subjective Constructs	601	(6)
Stephen K. Probert
100. A Systems Approach to Strategic IS Integration	607	(6)
K. A. Reynolds
A. J. S. Thethi
C. E. R. Wainwright
101. Information within the (Human) System: Some Implication for Information Systems Concept	613	(6)
Antonin Rosicky
102. Information Systems Development	619	(6)
Gurmak Singh
Kate Gilbert
103. Modelling the Discharge Decision-Making Process in the Domain of Mental Health Care	625	(6)
Susan Anne Smith
104. The Role of Diagrams in Information Systems Analysis	631	(6)
Daune West
105. Developing Firmer Grounds for Client-Led Design of Information Systems	637	(4)
S. Xia
Innovation and Organisations	641	(62)
106. Competitive Systems--Seducing Cicero	641	(6)
Graeme Altmann
Gordon Boyce
107. A System-Structural View of Relationship Marketing Analysis	647	(6)
Ahmed Beloucif
108. A Systemic Framework for Sustainability of Performance in Operations Management	653	(6)
Alan Fowler
109. Integrating Knowledge for Innovation	659	(6)
Jon-Arild Johannessen
Jens Otto Dolva
Bjorn Olsen
110. Systems of Innovation	665	(6)
Jon-Arild Johannessen
Jens Otto Dolva
Bjorn Olsen
111. A Systems Perspective of the Extended Enterprise	671	(6)
G. P. Nelder
P. A. Lowenthal
P. J.
Sackett
112. The Diversity, Mysteries, and Dilemmas of Total Quality Management	677	(6)
John C. Oliga
Annies L. F. Foong
A. E. Ojuka-Onedo
113. Working Together: R&D Partnering in the New Zealand Dairy Sector	683	(6)
M. S. Paine
M. E. Wedderburn
114. Stakeholders' Perceptions of a Business Process Reengineering Project	689	(8)
Weniubel Ratana Trihajuwidjajani
Peter Marshall
Judy McKay
115. Expansion of the System Boundary: A Case Study of the Influence of a Multinational Organisation on a Middle Market Supplier	697	(6)
J. T. Wilton
L. R. P. Reavill
Change Management	703	(24)
116. An Holistic Model for Change Management	703	(6)
George Allan
117. A Systemic Approach to Organizational Role and the Management of Change	709	(6)
Robert French
Peter Simpson
118. High Performance Teams and Their Development	715	(6)
L. R. P. Reavill
119. A Consideration of Team Development Life Cycles Using Behavioural Paradigm Models and Communication Analysis	721	(6)
Roger Stewart
Index	727