Roots and Branches: A Brief, Picaresque, Personal History of Systems Theory

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 417-428

  Bausch, Kenneth C ^a  

^a Institute for 21st Century Agoras   (United States)

Author keywords

Branches of Systems Theory; History of Systems Theory; Roots of Systems Theory; Systemic model

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMIC MODELS;

CHAOS THEORY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

SYSTEM THEORY;

EID: 0036377212     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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