An integrated social fabric matrix/system dynamics approach to policy analysis

✍ Scribed by Roderic Gill

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 912 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0883-7066
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1727(199623)12:3<167::aid-sdr100>3.0.co;2-3

✦ Synopsis

All socio-economic systems are characterised by a complexity of interacting influence patterns that would usually incorporate institutional, environmental, technological and behavioural relationships. The challenge for management is to develop a sufficiently detailed understanding of these influences in order to develop effective opportunities and mechanisms for control. This challenge is heightened by the tradition of "partial" or non-holistic thinking that continues as the conventional wisdom in the management field. Though the imperative for holistic thinking is intuitively supported by most managers, the difficulties associated with implementing these ideas into management practice may be perceived as being "too hard" or "open ended" for practical application. System dynamics modelling is an appropriate process for developing an holistic A previous version of this paper was included in the proceedings of the 1995