Systems Thinking brings together classic and contemporary writings that cross the entire breadth of the systems field. The four-volume set includes the most influential theoretical papers, as well as applications in domains as diverse as global environmental modelling, business strategy, public sector planning, family therapy and the management of organizations.
Key critiques of the leading writers allow the researcher to understand how and why paradigm breaks took place, and to grasp the extraordinary diversification of systems theory and practice we see today.





Systems Thinking will be an essential reference for all libraries of business, management and organization studies.





International Advisory Board





Peter Allen, Cranfield University, UK


Bela H Banathy, Saybrook Institute, USA & International Systems Institute, USA


Kenneth Bausch, Institute for 21st Century Agoras, USA


Richard Bawden, Michigan State University, USA


Soren Brier, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark


David Campbell, Tavistock Clinic, UK


Fritjof Capra, Center for Ecoliteracy, USA


Peter Checkland, Lancaster University, UK


Jose Cordoba, University of Hull, UK


Peter Corning, Institute for the Study of Complex Systems, USA


Donald de Raadt, Lulea University, Sweden


Eric Dent, University of Maryland, University College, USA


Peter Dudley, Integra Management Systems Ltd., UK


Robert Flood, Maastricht University, The Netherlands


Joyce Fortune, Open University, UK


Wojciech Gasparski, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland


Wendy Gregory, University of Hull, UK


Jifa Gu, JAIST, Japan & Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China


Enrique Herrscher, IDEA, Argentina


Kristo Ivanov, Umea University, Sweden


Mike Jackson, University of Hull, UK


James Kay, University of Waterloo, Canada


Lisl Klein, Bayswater Institute, UK


George Klir, Binghampton University, USA


Ervin Laszlo, Club of Budapest, Hungary


Harold Linstone, Portland State University, USA


Sid Luckett, University of Natal, South Africa


Gianfranco Minati, Italian Systems Society, Italy


John Mingers, Warwick University, UK


Heiner M ller Merbach, Universitat Kaiserslautern, Germany


P N Murthy, Tata Consultancy Services, India


Yoshiteru Nakamori, Japan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan


Harold Nelson, Advance Design Institute, Seattle, USA


Roger Packham, University of Western Sydney, Australia


Yong Pil Rhee, Seoul National University, South Korea


Kurt Richardson, Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, USA


Fenton Robb, Independent Author, UK


Ricardo Rodriguez-Ulloa, Instituto Andino de Sistemas, Peru


Simanta Roy-Chowdhury, Barnet, Enfield and Harringay NHS Trust & University of East London, UK


John Sterman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA


Sytse Strijbos, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands


Stuart Umpleby, George Washington University, USA


John Van Gigch, California State University, USA


John Warfield, George Mason University, USA


Jennifer Wilby, The University of York, UK


Eric Wolstenholme, Cognitus Ltd., UK


Maurice Yolles, Liverpool John Moores University, UK