This book uses systemic thinking and applies it to the study of financial crises. It systematically presents how the systemic yoyo model, its thinking logic, and its methodology can be employed as a common playground and intuition to the study of money, international finance, and economic...

This study adopts the logic of Systems Thinking and Control Systems, presenting a simple but complete theory called the Theory of Combinatory Systems. This new theory is able to describe, interpret, explain, simulate and control collective phenomena and their observable effects. Despite specific...

Chapter 1. Tribute to three voices -- Chapter 2. The role of Information and Communication Technologies in Human Interactions -- Chapter 3. Interdisciplinary systems thinking for a new scientific paradigm: toward a re-founding of human values -- Chapter 4. Autonomous Systems and the Place of...

Quantum Effects in Linguistic Endeavors -- Cross-Frequency Modulation, Network Information Integration and Cognitive Performance in Complex Systems -- Testing Different Learning Strategies on a Simple Connectionist Model of Numerical Fact Retrieval -- Dynamical Systems and Automata -- Towards...

Deals with the contribution of a systems approach to a range of disciplines from philosophy and biology to social theory and management. This book is of interest to scholars in philosophy, biology, information systems, communications, social theory, management science and operational research as...

Chapter 1. The Background of Good-Old-Fashioned-Systemics -- Part. I -- Chapter 2. Perspective new conceptual categories -- Chapter 3. Dynamics -- Chapter 4. From collective beings to quasi-systems -- Chapter 5. New formalisation? -- Chapter 6. Theoretical systemics and quantum field theory --...

Collective behaviors play a fundamental role in many scientific and technical disciplines. This book introduces the concept of Collective Being as a Multiple System established by processes of emergence and self-organization of the same agents simultaneously or dynamically interacting in...

1 Introduction -- Start of Argument -- 2 Liberating Systems Theory -- 3 Interpretive Analytics and Knowledge-Constitutive Interests: Liberate and Critique -- 4 On ‘System’: Conceptual Anti-Reflexivity (Strand 1) -- 5 On ‘System’: Abstract and Paradigmatic Conceptions (Strand 2) -- 6 On...

The author thoroughly describes and analyzes the most significant systems methodologies-`organizations as systems,' hard, soft, cybernetic, and critical-and demonstrates the complementary strengths of different systems approaches