| Context and Complexity: Cultivating Contextual Understanding Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Maruyama, Magoroh (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1461276608 ISBN-13: 9781461276609 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Leadership - Business & Economics | Business Communication - General - Medical |
| Dewey: 658.45 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.51 lbs) 145 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An original view of interdisciplinary thinking and its applications is given in this book. It aims to help the reader develop a contextual way to understand and act in complex situations. The book is based on a G-type principle: heterogenetic, interactive and pattern-generating. Each chapter is not only interdisciplinary, but also contextual and relational. They correspond to each of the six ways of cultivating contextual understanding. Five of the chapters give concrete examples; three of them center on examples from business management. This is because business management has become a frontier of complexity requiring contextual thinking; it is useful epistemologically to those in the humanities, social and natural sciences. The sixth chapter theoretically summarizes all the concrete examples. |