System Dynamics and Cybernetics: A Necessary Synergy
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چکیده
In line with the conference theme – „Collegiality“ – the authors propose to build a bridge between two Systems Approaches, namely System Dynamics (SD) and Management Cybernetics (MC). This synthesis is aimed at opening a path for a better capability to deal with complex issues of actors in both organizations and society. With their respective strengths – modelling and simulation of content issues for SD, and providing a viable organizational context for MC a combination appears to be potentially promising. The authors propose the Integrative Systems Methodology as a framework for combining SD and MC, and they give practical illustrations to support their argument.
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