On Purposeful Systems
On Purposeful Systems
ISBN: 9780202307985
出版社: Transaction Pub
出版年: 2005-11
页数: 308
定价: $ 38.36
装帧: Pap
内容简介
On Purposeful Systems provides an innovative foundation for looking at human and social behavioraas a system of purposeful (teleological) events. It uses a systems theoretical approach for the study of these phenomena, and illustrates and extends general systems theory. aWhat makes this book amagicala is that Ackoff provides aoperational definitionsa for many ill-defined words and conceptsafrom defining aknowledgea and aunderstandinga to providing definitions of feelings/emotions.... T]his book represents a paradigm] shift that has yet to be appreciated, thirty years later.aaW. Curtiss Priest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology