Rethinking the Fifth Discipline

Flood, R. L. 1999. Rethinking the Fifth Discipline: Learning within the unknowable. London, England: Routledge.

Usage

This source is considered a primary reference for the following articles:

• Systems Thinking
• History of Systems Science
• Systems Science

Annotation

This book includes a very good general summary of systems science and systems thinking. It provides the management science perspective on systems science.

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