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General Systems Theory

Foundation, Intuition and Applications in Business Decision Making

  • 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. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
  2. Introduction

    • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
    Pages 1-21
  3. The Foundation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
    2. The Concept of General Systems

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 25-39
    3. Mappings and Constructions of Systems

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 41-55
    4. Connectedness

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 57-67
    5. Hierarchies—Construction of Large-Scale Systems

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 69-80
    6. Controllabilities

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 81-91
    7. Limit Systems

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 93-101
    8. Systems of Single Relations

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 103-110
    9. The Feedback Mechanism

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 111-119
    10. Properties Invariant Under Feedback

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 121-130
    11. Decoupling of Single-Relation Systems

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 131-143
    12. Decomposability Conditions

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 145-162
  4. The Systemic Intuition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
    2. How Systems Could Be Intuitively Seen

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 165-192
    3. Whole Evolutions, Where Systemic Yoyos Come from

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 193-219
    4. Some Empirical Justifications

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 221-240
  5. Applications in Business Decision Making

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241
    2. Economic Events and Processes

      • Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
      Pages 243-256

About this book

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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eBook USD 109.00
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Hardcover Book USD 139.99
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