Systems theory was not originally a business theory. Indeed, systems theory was proposed in the 1940s by biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, say Francis Heylighen and Cliff Joslyn in their article, ...

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 ...

An organization, by its most basic definition, is an assembly of people working together to achieve common objectives through a division of labor. An organization provides a means of using individual ...

Open system theory is a biological theory that has been adapted to business organizational structure theories. It may seem odd that biology has anything to do with business, but the theory recognizes ...

Newton’s third law tells us that for every action, there’s an equal reaction going the opposite way. It’s been reassuring us for 400 years, explaining why we don’t fall through the floor (the floor ...

All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Newton’s third law ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Sep 2014) (9 pages) ABSTRACT. For coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), sustainability can be defined operationally as a feasible, desirable set of flows ...