Article ID: | iaor1995796 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 24 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 26 |
End Page Number: | 37 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1994 |
Journal: | Interfaces |
Authors: | Ulrich Werner |
Future-responsive management may depend on C. West Churchman’s understanding of systems design and management. Future-responsive management raises fundamental cognitive and methodoÂlogical difficulties. No conceivable systems approach can make these difficulties disappear, but we can at least try to understand them and to face then self-critically. To this end, the systems idea has more to contribute than is generally recognized.