- Basic ideas underlying Soft Systems Thinking (SST)
- there are multiple perceptionsof reality
- A subjectivist approach
- Weltanschauung: an individual's worldview
- Vicker's notion of an "appreciative system".
- Representative works
- Churchman's Social Systems Design
- Mason and Mitroff's Strategic Assumptions Surfacing and Testing (SAST) methodology
- Ackoff's Social Systems Sciences
- Checkland's Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)
- An assessment of SST and SSM
- An underdeveloped form of critical modernism
Reference
Jackson, M.C. (1991) "Chapter 6: Soft Systems Thinking" Systems Methodology for the Management Sciences, Plenum
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