Browsing Produção Intelectual em Bases Externas by Author "Georgiou, Ion"
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A blast at the past: an inquiry into Herbert Simon's arguments against the principles
2013-12The decades since 1946 have seen repeated rhetoric supportive of Herbert Simon's critique, published that year, of Luther Gulick's Notes on the Theory of Organization' (published in 1937). The literature offers few contrary ... -
A graph-theoretic perspective on the links-to-concepts ratio expected in cognitive maps
2009Strategic options development and analysis (SODA) has maintained that it expects a links-to-concepts ratio of 1.15-1.20 in cognitive maps. This expectation is investigated from a graph-theoretic perspective in order to ... -
Managerial effectiveness from a system theoretical point of view
2006-10This paper defines managerial effectiveness as the ability to answer three questions: (1) Given sparse knowledge of a problematic situation, how is it possible to extract information from it?; (2) If such information can ... -
Mapping railway development prospects in Brazil
2009This paper reports on what appears to be the first attempt to map the perceived holistic dynamics at work in contemporary Brazilian railway development. The published perspectives of recognized experts in the Brazilian ... -
Messing about in transformations: structured systemic planning for systemic solutions to systemic problems
2012-12-01The literature on multimethodology indicates that cognitive mapping is relevant to enriching the preliminary, information-gathering phase of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), and especially the rich picture. By noting the ... -
Seven and the sausage machine: searching for conclusions in Miller's 1956 magical paper
2010-12This paper offers an analytical review of Miller's classic paper of 1956 on 'the magical number 7'. It takes account of that paper's contradictions as well as of its implicit conclusions. Miller's text is by no means clear ... -
A systemic framework for case-based classroom experiential learning
2008-12This paper presents the two general types of cases designed for use in the classroom. It discusses how each type implies a particular instructional approach, and outlines the learning consequences of each approach. In doing ...
