September 2, 2019

Business Systems Laboratory – Symposia (324 members)

The Business Systems Laboratory International Symposia aim to address the global challenges by a systemic perspective. The criticalities and the opportunities of our times are faced according to the cutting edge research and practice in the various fields of social science. This […]
September 2, 2019

Systems Sciences (523 members)

The International Society for the Systems Sciences is devoted to interdisciplinary inquiry into the nature of complex systems. Initially conceived in 1954 by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Kenneth Boulding, Ralph Gerard, and Anatol Rapoport, the Society for General Systems Research became the ISSS […]
July 31, 2023

Other Intellectual Approaches and commentary as well as further links

Isaacs, William. ‘DIALOGUE: THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE THINKING’. The Systems Thinker 4, no. 3 (1993). Laszlo, Alexander. ‘Conversations Communities in Context: A Retrospective Prospective’. Constructivist Foundations 11 (1 November 2015): 54–56. Schein, Edgar H. ‘The Process of Dialogue: Creating Effective Communication’. The […]
July 31, 2023

Conversation Theory: Pask and Second-Order Cybernetics

Pask, Gordon. Conversation Theory: Applications in Education and Epistemology. Amsterdam ; New York: Elsevier, 1976. Pangaro, Paul. ‘Why Do We Want To Live In Cybernetics?’ Cybernetics and Human Knowing 23, no. 2 (2016): 9–21. Glanville, Ranulph. ‘SECOND ORDER CYBERNETICS’. In Encyclopedia of Life […]