Systems approaches in policy analysis have had a chequered history. Expectations that 'hard' (quantitative) systems analysis would lead to better answers to policy problems have largely been ...

The Systems Theory and Design (THD) department researches methods, procedures and tools of systems engineering for the requirements analysis of automated and autonomous systems. These new systems also ...

Separation Theory integrates psychoanalytic and existential systems of thought by showing how early interpersonal pain, separation anxiety, and later death anxiety lead to the development of ...

Of the various organizational theories that have been studied in this realm, the open-systems theory has emerged as perhaps the most widely known, but others have their proponents as well. Indeed ...

However, general systems theory offers another way to organize your company. Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy created this theory in 1934, and business organizations have been building on his model ...