Living systems theory - a brief note

The living systems theory is a systems methodology that adopts the organizational metaphor of living systems to study complex organizations and changes in complex situations. (Pratt, Gordon, and Plamping, 2005). There are articles on living systems theory published in systems journals from time to time.

Reference
Pratt, J., Gordon, P. and Plamping, D. (2005) Working Whole Systems: Putting theory into practice in organisations, Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford.