Context and Complexity: Cultivating Contextual Understanding

✍ Scribed by Magoroh Maruyama (auth.), Magoroh Maruyama PhD (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 152
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An original view of interdisciplinary thinking and its applications is given in this book. It aims to help the reader develop a contextual way to understand and act in complex situations. The book is based on a G-type principle: heterogenetic, interactive and pattern-generating. Each chapter is not only interdisciplinary, but also contextual and relational. They correspond to each of the six ways of cultivating contextual understanding. Five of the chapters give concrete examples; three of them center on examples from business management. This is because business management has become a frontier of complexity requiring contextual thinking; it is useful epistemologically to those in the humanities, social and natural sciences. The sixth chapter theoretically summarizes all the concrete examples.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Interrelations Among Science, Politics, Aesthetics, Business Management, and Economics....Pages 1-34
Hyperinflation, Culture, and Morphogenetic Economics in Argentina....Pages 35-81
The Role of Engineers in Japanese Industry and Education—An Industrial Sociologist’s View....Pages 83-89
Thinking in Networks to Avoid Pitfalls of Managerial Thinking....Pages 91-108
Crossing Intellectual Boundaries....Pages 109-124
The Concept of System and the Paradigm of Complexity....Pages 125-138
Back Matter....Pages 139-145

✦ Subjects

Management/Business for Professionals; Psychology, general; Medicine/Public Health, general