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General Systems Theory

Foundation, Intuition and Applications in Business Decision Making

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  • © 2018

Overview

  • Includes the most important developments made since the year 2000 in the relevant areas of research
  • Provides insightful and thought-provoking applications in economics and business decision making
  • Develops a general theory of systems through a constructive interpretation of the yoyo model in the framework of the general system theory approach

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. The Foundation

  2. The Systemic Intuition

  3. Applications in Business Decision Making

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This book demonstrates the theoretical value and practical significance of systems science and its logic of thinking by presenting a rigorously developed foundation—a tool for intuitive reasoning, which is supported by both theory and empirical evidence, as well as practical applications in business decision making. Following a foundation of general systems theory, the book presents an applied method to intuitively learn system-sciences fundamentals. The third and final part examines applications of the yoyo model and the theoretical results developed earlier within the context of problems facing business decision makers by organically combining methods of traditional science, the first dimension of science, with those of systems science, the second dimension, as argued by George Klir in the 1990s. This text would benefit graduate students, researchers, or practitioners in the areas of mathematics, systems science or engineering, economics, and business decision science.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Business, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, USA

    Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest

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