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Multimethodology John Mingers (Warwick Business School)

Multimethodology By John Mingers (Warwick Business School)

Multimethodology by John Mingers (Warwick Business School)

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Summary

This book proposes that using two or more management science methodologies in the same intervention is likely to produce a richer picture for "seeing and understanding the complex web of relationships and interconnectivities" which is likely to lead to better decision taking by managers and workers. This is what is meant by "multimethodology.

Multimethodology Summary

Multimethodology: Towards Theory and Practice and Mixing and Matching Methodologies by John Mingers (Warwick Business School)

This book proposes that using two or more management science methodologies in the same intervention is likely to produce a richer picture for "seeing and understanding the complex web of relationships and interconnectivities" which is likely to lead to better decision taking by managers and workers. This is what is meant by "multimethodology." In conclusion, the book explores several theoretical and philosophical perspectives on combining methodologies from different paradigms, as well as presenting many actual examples from practice.

About John Mingers (Warwick Business School)

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.

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GOR004552722
9780471974901
0471974900
Multimethodology: Towards Theory and Practice and Mixing and Matching Methodologies by John Mingers (Warwick Business School)
John Mingers (Warwick Business School)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
1997-09-05
458
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