Systems Thinking for Organizations
Recommended Reading


Ackoff, Russell. (1981). Creating the Corporate Future. New York: Wiley.

Argyris, Chris. (1982). Reasoning, Learning, and Action. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

________. (1990). Overcoming Organizational Defenses. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

________. (1993). Knowledge for Action. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

________. (1992). On Organizational Learning. Cambridge: Blackwell.

Argyris, Chris, and Donald Schšn. (1974). Theory in Practice. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

________. (1978). Organizational Learning: a Theory of Action Perspective. Reading, MA.: Addison Wesley.

Argyris, Chris, Robert Putnam, and Diana McLain Smith. (1985). Action Science. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Ashby, Ross. (1956). An Introduction to Cybernetics. London: Methuen.

Bateson, Gregory. (1972). Steps to an Ecology of Mind. New York: Ballantine.

Beer, Stafford. (1979). Heart of Enterprise. New York: Wiley.

________. (1985). Diagnosing the System For Organizations. New York: Wiley.

________. (1994). Beyond Dispute. New York: Wiley.

Bennis, Warren. (1993). ÒLearning Some Basic Truisms About Leadership,Ó In The New Paradigm in Business, Michael Ray and Alan Rinzler, eds. New York: Tarcher/Peregree.

Boulding, Kenneth. (1961) The Image. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Checkland, Peter. (1981). Systems Thinking, Systems Practice. New York: Wiley.

Checkland, Peter, and Jim Scholes. (1990). Soft Systems Methodology in Action. New York: Wiley.

Cherns, Albert. (1978). "The Principles of Sociotechnical Design." Sociotechnical Systems: A Sourcebook, ed.

William Pasmore and John Sherwood. San Diego: University Associates, 1978.

Dooley, Jeff. (1993). ÒPiaget, Self-Organizing Knowledge, and Critical Systems Practice.Ó Systems Practice, Vol. 6 No. 4: 359-381.

Doyle, Michael, and David Straus. (1982). How to Make Meetings Work. New York: Jove.

Flood, Robert, and Ewart Carson. (1988). Dealing with Complexity: An Introduction to the Theory and Application of Systems Science. New York: Plenum.

Flood, Robert, and Michael Jackson. (1991) Creative Problem Solving: Total Systems Intervention. New York: Wiley.

Forrester, Jay. Principles of Systems. (1968). Portland, OR: Productivity Press.

Goodman, Michael. (1974). Study Notes in System Dynamics. Portland, OR: Productivity Press.

Katz, Daniel, and Robert Kahn. (1978). The Social Psychology of Organizations, 2nd Ed. New York: Wiley.

Kuhn, Thomas. (1962). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

________. (1977). ÒObjectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice,Ó In The Essential Tension. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 320-339.

Moore, Carl. (1987). Group Techniques for Idea Building. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Morecroft, John and John Sterman. (1994). Modeling for Learning Organizations. Portland, OR: Productivity Press.

Morgan, Gareth. (1986). Images of Organization. Newbury Park, CA.: Sage.

Nadler, David, Marc Gerstein, and Robert Shaw. (1992). Organizational Architecture. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Powers, William. (1989). Living Control Systems. Gravel Switch, KY: Control Systems Group.

Putnam, Robert. (1990). ÒPutting Concepts to Use: Re- educating Professionals for Organizational Learning.Ó Ph.D. diss., Harvard University.

Randers, J¿rgen. (1980). Elements of the System Dynamics Method. Cambridge: Productivity Press.

Ray, Michael, and Alan Rinzler, eds. (1993). The New Paradigm in Business. New York: Tarcher/Perigree.

Reckmeyer, William. (1986). "Organizational Health in the Systems Age: A Renaissance Systems Perspective." in Cybernetics and Systems, ed. R. Trappl. Dordrecht: Reidel.

Richardson, George, and Alexander Pugh III. (1981). Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling with DYNAMO. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Roberts,Nancy and D. Anderson, R Deal, M. Garet, W. Shaffer. (1971). Introduction to Computer Simulation: A System Dynamics Approach. Portland, OR: Productivity Press.

Rosenhead, Jonathan. (1989). Rational Analysis for a Problematic World. New York: Wiley.

Schein, Edgar. (1992). Organizational Culture and Leadership, 2nd Ed. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

________. (1988). Process Consultation, Vol 1 & 2. Reading MA.: Addison Wesley.

Schwarz, Roger. (1994). The Skilled Facilitator. San Fraicisco: Jossey-Bass.

Senge, Peter. (1990). The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. New York: Doubleday.

Senge, Peter, and Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Richard Ross, and Bryan Smith. (1994). The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. New York: Doubleday.

Trist, E. L. (1978). "On Socio-technical Systems." in Sociotechnical Systems: A Sourcebook, ed. William Pasmore and John Sherwood. San Diego: University Associates.

Ulrich, Werner. (1983). Critical Heuristics of Social Planning: A New Approach to Practical Philosophy. Bern: Haupt.

Weinberg, Gerald. (1975). An Introduction to General Systems Thinking. New York: Wiley.

Wilson, Brian. (1984). Systems: Concepts, Methodologies and Applications. New York: Wiley.


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