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Seeing Systems: A Conceptual Resource

Ned O'Gorman, Jessica Robinson, Paul McKean, Matt Pitchford, Mary Grace Hebert, Ned Prutzer, Sally Jackson, Jessica Landau, Jeffrey Proulx, Melissa Seifert, Natalie Lambert, Kristina Williams, Gabe Malo, elizaBeth Simpson, Fabian Prieto-Nanez, Nikki Weickum, Kevin Hamilton, Authors

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Systems Theory

"A systems theory develops a description of real- world phenomena in terms of an abstract logic of explanation that is constructed by the observer. " Marshall Scott Poole [49]

According to Poole [60-70], Systems Theories in Organizational Communication include:

  • Structural-Functionalism
  • Cybernetics
  • Organizing and Sensemaking
  • Crazy Systems and Unusual Routines
  • Structuration Theory
  • Informal Chaos Theory and Informal Complex Adaptive Systems Theory
  • Radical Constrictivism and Self-Reflexive Systems Theory
  • Statistical Models
  • Deterministic Mathematical Models
  • Communication Network Models
  • Self-Organizing Systems Models
  • Luhmann
  • Cellular Autonoma
  • System Dynamics
  • Catastrophe Theory
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Formal mathematical modeling based on Chaos Theory
  • Logic-Based Systems Models





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