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Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
Sect. I | Russell Ackoff and Anheuser-Busch: the Story of a Model Relationship | 1 |
1 | Russell L. Ackoff and Anheuser-Busch: I. The Influence of the Man on the Organization | 3 |
2 | Russell L. Ackoff and Anheuser-Busch: II. The Influence of the Organization on the Man | 9 |
Sect. II | Pragmatism and Progress: Foundations | 19 |
3 | Analysis of Concepts | 21 |
4 | The Apostle of Progress | 31 |
5 | A Present of the Future | 49 |
6 | OR, MS, Systems Science, and Russell Ackoff: The Development of Two Paradigms | 53 |
Appendix: Principal Publications of Russell L. Ackoff | 70 | |
Sect. III | Systems Thinkers and Systems Applications | 81 |
7 | Planning Concepts, Planning Contexts | 84 |
8 | OR in Organizations | 98 |
9 | Andras Angyal and Systems Thinking | 111 |
10 | A Theory of Management | 133 |
11 | Educating for Reflection-in-Action | 142 |
12 | Performance Criteria as a Means of Social Integration | 162 |
13 | Some Comments on R. Ackoff's Concept of Interactive Planning | 179 |
14 | On Suicidal Rabbits: A Relativity of Systems | 194 |
15 | Personal Computers and the Shifting Control of Information in Corporations | 205 |
16 | Democratizing the Corporation: A Stakeholder Perspective | 213 |
Sect. IV | Decision Making and Problem Solving: Purposeful Action Within Systems | 221 |
17 | Inequalities in Decision Theory | 223 |
18 | Priorities and Decisions in Hierarchic and Feedback | 237 |
19 | Measuring Process Creativity | 254 |
20 | Innovation and Optimization | 270 |
21 | Is It the Right Problem? | 282 |
22 | How Management by Consensus Is Bringing the Kingdom Down | 288 |
23 | Innovation in Juvenile Justice | 295 |
Sect. V | Planning for National Development | 305 |
24 | The Elusive Interdisciplinarity of Development Planning | 307 |
25 | National Development Planning in Turbulent Times: New Approaches and Criteria for Institutional Design | 320 |
26 | Redesigning Western Foreign Policy | 354 |
27 | Power in the Design, Management and Evaluation of Organizations | 374 |
28 | Toward Interactive Planning for International Development Projects | 393 |
29 | Surutato: An Experience in Rural Participative Planning | 407 |
List of Contributors | 417 | |
Subject Index | 419 | |
Name Index | 428 |
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