The Dark Side of the Moon - Unilluminated Dimensions of Systems Practice

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 779-790

  Spear, Roger ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Craft knowledge; Intervention process; Intervention theory; Systems methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035562364     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013134613398     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Abdel-Malek et al. (1999). OR practice. J. Operat. Res. Soc. 50(10), 994-1003.
2. Bryant, J. (1984). Frameworks of inquiry: OR practice across the hard-soft divide. J. Operat. Res. Soc. 39(5).
3. Burgoyne, J. G. (1989). A behavioural science perspective on operational research practice. In Jackson, M., Keys, P., and Cropper, S. (eds.), Operational Research and the Social Sciences, Plenum Press, London.
4. Burrell, G., and Morgan, G. (1979). Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis, Heinemann, London.
5. Checkland, P. (1972). Towards a systems based methodology for real world problem solving. J. Appl. Syst. Anal.
6. Checkland, P. (2000a). Soft systems methodology: A thirty year retrospective. Syst. Res. Behav. Sci. 17, S11-S58.
7. Checkland, P. (2000b). The emergent properties of SSM in use. Syst. Pract. Act. Res. 13, 799-823.
8. Checkland, P., and Scholes (1990). Soft Systems Methodology in Action, John Wiley, Chichester.
9. Churchman, C. W. (1971). Design of Inquiring Systems, Basic Books, New York.
10. Connell, N. A. D. (2001). Evaluation soft OR. J. Operat. Res. Soc. 52, 150-160.
11. Eden, C., et al. (1979). Thinking in Organisations, Macmillan, London.
12. Eden, C. (1988). Problem-solving or problem-finishing? In Jackson, M., and Keyes, P. (eds.), New Directions in Management Science, Gower, London.
13. Eden, C. (1989). OR as negotiation. In Jackson, M., Keys, P., and Cropper, S. (eds.), Operational Research and the Social Sciences, Plenum Press, London.
14. Eden, C., and Radford, J. (1990). Tackling Strategic Problems, Sage, London.
15. Fay, B. (1975). Social Theory and Political Practice, George Allen and Unwin, London.
16. Flood, R. (1989). Methodologies for messes. In Jackson, M., and Keyes, P. (eds.), New Directions in Management Science, Gower, London.
17. Habermas, J. (1971). Towards a Rational Society, Heinemann, London.
18. Holwell, S. (2000). Soft systems methodology - Other views. Syst. Pract. Act. Res. 13, 773-797.
19. Jackson, M. (1988). New directions in management science. In Jackson, M., and Keyes, P. (eds.), New Directions in Management Science, Gower, London.
20. Jackson, M., and Flood, R. (1991). Creative Problem Solving, Wiley, Chichester.
21. Keyes, P. (1988). Traditional management science and the emerging critique. In Jackson, M., and Keyes, P. (eds.), New Directions in Management Science, Gower, London.
22. Kreher, H. (1994). Some recuring themes in using SSM. J. Operat. Res. Soc. 45, 1293-1303.
23. Lockett, M., and Spear, R. (eds.) (1980). Systems as Organisations, Open University Press, Milton Keynes, UK.
24. Lukes, S. (1974). Power: A Radical Approach, Macmillan, London.
25. Majone, G. (1980). Policies as Theories, Omega, London.
26. Mingers, J. C., and Taylor (1992). The use of soft systems methodology in practice. J. Operat. Res. Soc. 43, 321-332.
27. Miser, H. (1999). Viewpoint. J. Operat. Res. Soc. 50, 874-875.
28. Miser, H., and Quade (1988). Handbook of Systems Analysis, John Wiley, Chichester.
29. Naughton, J. J. (1977). The Checkland Methodology - A Readers Guide, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
30. Naughton, J. J. (1981). Theory and practice in systems research. J. Appl. Syst. Anal. 8.
31. Parry, R., and Mingers, J. C. (1989). Community OR: Its context and its future. Working paper. University of Warwick, Warwick.
32. Ranyard, J. C., and Fildes, R. (1998a). Winners and losers. J. Operat. Res. Soc. 49, 355-368.
33. Ranyard, J. C., and Fildes, R. (1998b). Summary of final discussion. J. Operat. Res. Soc. 49, 434-443.
34. Rosenhead, J. (1988). From management science to workers' science. In Jackson, M., and Keyes, P. (eds.), New Directions in Management Science, Gower, London.
35. Schein, E. (1988). Process Consultation, Vols. I and II, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.
36. Schon, D. A. (1983). The Reflective Practitioner, Basic Books, New York.
37. Spear, R. (1987). Towards a critical systems approach, SGSR Conference, Budapest, June.
38. T306 (2000). Managing complexity: A systems approach. Open University Systems Discipline (see http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.d11?C01T306).
39. Taket, A., and White, L. (1998). Experience in the practice of one tradition of multimethodology. Syst. Pract. Act. Res. 11, 153-168.
40. Thomlinson, R., and Kiss, I. (1985). Rethinking the Process of Operational Research and Systems Analysis, Pergamon, London.
41. Tsoukas, H., and Papoulias, D. B. (1996). Understanding social reforms. J. Operat. Res. Soc. 47, 853-863.
42. Ulrich, W. (1987). Critical heuristics of social system design. Eur. J. Operat. Res. 31, 276-283.
43. Wilmott, H. (1989). OR as a problem situation: From soft systems methodology to critical science. In Jackson, M., Keys, P., and Cropper, S. (eds.), Operational Research and the Social Sciences, Plenum Press, London.
44. Wright, A. (1999). Systems thinking and systems practice. Working in the fifth dimension. Syst. Pract. Act. Res. 12, 607-631.