Multimethodology: Towards Theory and Practice and Mixing and Matching Methodologies / Edition 1

by John Mingers, Anthony Gill

Overview

Keine Methodologie einer einzelnen Disziplin ist in der Lage, ein umfassendes Bild der komplexen Zusammenhange zu geben, denen Organisationen gegenuberstehen. Die Autoren dieses Buches vertreten die Ansicht, da? man durch simultane Anwendung mehrerer wissenschaftlicher Methoden des Managements zu besserem Verstandnis des komplizierten Beziehungsgefuges eines Unternehmens gelangen kann, was Managern und Mitarbeitern die Entscheidungsfindung erleichtert.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471974901
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/07/1997
Pages:	458
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

John Mingers is Professor of OR and Information Systems and Director of Research at Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK. His research interests include the use of systems methodologies in problem situations, particularly the mixing of different methodologies within an intervention; the development of critical realism as a philosophy for information systems; the development of theory concerning the nature of information and meaning; and autopoiesis and its applications. He has published several books, including Self-Producing Systems: Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis and Information Systems: An Emerging Discipline?.

Table of Contents

Partial table of contents:

Multi-paradigm Multimethodology (J. Mingers).

PRACTICE OF MULTIMETHODOLOGY.

Mixing Methods in Practice: A Transformation-Competence Perspective (R. Ormerod).

One Size Doesn't Fit All: Reflections on Using Systems Techniques in an Operational Setting (J. Bentham).

Status and Tendencies of Management Research: A Systems Oriented Perspective (M. Schwaninger).

COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF MULTIMETHODOLOGY.

Multimethodologies—The Knowledge Perspective (D. Skyrme).

THEORY OF MULTIMETHODOLOGY.

Mixing Methods: Developing Systemic Intervention (G. Midgley).

Pluralism in Systems Thinking and Practice (M. Jackson).

Towards Critical Pluralism (J. Mingers).

Index.

Editorial Reviews

Proposes that a richer understanding of relationships in a company can be obtained by combining such management approaches as continuous improvement, innovative use of information technology, competitive advantage, supply-chain management, bench-marking, and team-based working. Explores several theoretical and philosophical models for combining methodologies from different paradigms, and considers communication between people with different perspectives. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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