Reflecting on SSM: The dividing line between 'real world' and 'systems thinking world'

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-45

  Tsouvalis, Costas ^a   Checkland, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'real world'; 'systems thinking world'; Cartesian dualism; Knowing from within; Knowing how; Knowing that; Soft systems methodology (SSM); The dividing line of SSM

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002776799     PISSN: 00057940     EISSN: 1932300X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1735(199603)13:1<35::aid-sres73>3.0.co;2-o     Document Type: Article

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