Aesthetics in OR/systems practice: Towards a concept of critical imagination as a challenge to systems thinking

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 779-791

  White, Leroy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aesthetics in organizations; Architecture of organizing; Critical imagination; Critical thinking; Process; Systems thinking

Indexed keywords

AESTHETIC VALUE; CRITICAL IMAGINATION; CRITICAL THINKING; SYSTEMS AND OR; SYSTEMS THINKING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; PROCESSING; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

SYSTEM THEORY;

EID: 33846296907     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: 10991743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.722     Document Type: Article

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