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Context and Complexity

Cultivating Contextual Understanding

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Magoroh Maruyama

    1. School of International Politics, Economics, and Business, Aoyama Gakuin University, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Interrelations Among Science, Politics, Aesthetics, Business Management, and Economics

    • Magoroh Maruyama
    Pages 1-34

  3. Hyperinflation, Culture, and Morphogenetic Economics in Argentina

    • Enrique G. Herrscher, Roberto M. Herrscher, Marcelo Diamand
    Pages 35-81

  4. The Role of Engineers in Japanese Industry and Education—An Industrial Sociologist’s View

    • Kenji Okuda
    Pages 83-89

  5. Thinking in Networks to Avoid Pitfalls of Managerial Thinking

    • Gilbert J. B. Probst, Peter Gomez
    Pages 91-108

  6. Crossing Intellectual Boundaries

    • Albert Somit
    Pages 109-124

  7. The Concept of System and the Paradigm of Complexity

    • Edgar Morin
    Pages 125-138

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 139-145
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About this book

An original view of interdisciplinary thinking and its applications is given in this book. It aims to help the reader develop a contextual way to understand and act in complex situations. The book is based on a G-type principle: heterogenetic, interactive and pattern-generating. Each chapter is not only interdisciplinary, but also contextual and relational. They correspond to each of the six ways of cultivating contextual understanding. Five of the chapters give concrete examples; three of them center on examples from business management. This is because business management has become a frontier of complexity requiring contextual thinking; it is useful epistemologically to those in the humanities, social and natural sciences. The sixth chapter theoretically summarizes all the concrete examples.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of International Politics, Economics, and Business, Aoyama Gakuin University, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

    Magoroh Maruyama

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Context and Complexity

  • Book Subtitle: Cultivating Contextual Understanding

  • Editors: Magoroh Maruyama

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2768-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7660-9Published: 01 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-2768-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 145

  • Topics: Management, Psychology, general, Medicine/Public Health, general

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