Comments about Churchman, C. W., A. H. Schainblatt. 1965. The researcher and the manager: A dialectic of implementation. Management Sci. 11 (4) B69-B87.

Sociologists are usually seen as the principal developers of organisational theory and it is not always realised that some very convincing explanations of how organisations work and suggestions on how they might work better are to be found in the science of control systems — cybernetics....

I WONDER very much whether anyone really noticed the title of this address, Prerogatives of Systems; or whether, having noticed, he was at all concerned. Perhaps he put it down to my ignorance—or his own. For a prerogative is an entitlement to priority. How then can systems have prerogatives?...