The greater whole: Towards a synthesis of system dynamics and soft systems methodology

DOI10.1016/S0377-2217(97)00205-1zbMATH Open0943.91024OpenAlexW2118725599MaRDI QIDQ1296077FDOQ1296077

Publication date: 10 September 2000

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0377-2217(97)00205-1

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zbMATH Keywords

simulation system dynamics complementarism holon dynamics mixing methods socio-political analysis soft system methodology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06)

Cites Work

Optimization+objectivity=opt out

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