Creating common ground: A lesson from the past
Orthodox business ethics, conventional management theory, and a great deal of higher education embody the overriding emphasis accorded to “analysis” by yesteryear's science. An alternative strategy, exemplified by the war stories told by a Confederate Genral, is more consistent with late 20th c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
1995
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 1995, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-16 |
| Further subjects: | B
Complex System
B High Education B Business Ethic B 20th Century B Economic Growth |
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| Summary: | Orthodox business ethics, conventional management theory, and a great deal of higher education embody the overriding emphasis accorded to “analysis” by yesteryear's science. An alternative strategy, exemplified by the war stories told by a Confederate Genral, is more consistent with late 20th century science in general and soft systems methodology in particular., The characteristic way of management that we have taught... is to take a complex system, divide it into parts, and then try to manage each part as well as possible. And if that's done, the system as a whole will behave well, and that's absolutely false because it's possible to improve the performance of each part taken separately and destroy the system at the same time., Russell Ackoff |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/BF00873731 |