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Seeing Systems: A Conceptual Resource

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