CONTENTS

Preface

Contributors/Authors

Eric Trist  and Hugh Murray
Historical  Overview: The Foundation and Development of the Tavistock Institute to  1989

Fred Emery
Introduction to  Volume III

Formulating the Perspective  
 
Fred  Emery and Eric Trist  
The Causal Texture of Organizational  Environments

Fred Emery
The Next Thirty Years: Concepts,  Methods and Anticipations

Conceptual  Developments

Fred Emery
Passive Maladaptive  Strategies

Alastair Crombie
Active Maladaptive  Strategies

Fred Emery and Merrelyn Emery
The Extended  Social Field and Its Informational Structure
 
Fred  Emery
Active Adaptation: The Emergence of Ideal-Seeking Systems,  Referent Organizations and the Development of Inter-Organizational  Domains

Eric Trist
Referent Organizations and the Development of Inter-Organizational
Domains

Joseph McCann and John Selsky
Hyperturbulence and  the Emergence of Type V Environments

Oguz Babüroglu
The  Vortical Environment: The Fifth in the Emery-Trist Levels of  Organizational Environments
 

Fred  Emery
Educational Paradigms: An Epistemological  Revolution

Fred Emery
Adaptive Systems for Our Future  Governance

Methodological Developments

Intro

Fred  Emery
Methodological Premises of Social  Forecasting    

Dorwin Cartwright and Frank Harary
A Graph  Theoretic Approach to the Investigation of System Environment  Relationships

Fred Emery
Causal Path  Analysis

Fred Emery and Merrelyn Emery
Project Australia:  Measuring Ideals in a Nation

David (P. G.)  Herbst
Co-Genetic Logic: A Foundation for Behavior  Logic

West Churchman and Fred Emery
On Various Approaches  to the Study of Organizations

Merrelyn Emery
The Search  Conference: Design and Management of Learning with a Solution to the  "Pairing" Puzzle

Planning and Policy

Intro

Russell A.  Ackoff
Systems, Messes and Interactive Planning

John  Friend
Connective Planning: From Practice to Theory and  Back

Fred Emery
Planning for Real but Different  Worlds
 

Fred  Emery
Policy: Appearance and Reality

Operational  Papers

Intro

Eric Trist
The Environment and System Response  Capability: A Futures Perspective

Fred Emery
Industrial  Democracy and Regional Decentralization

Eric  Trist
Quality of Working Life and Community Development: Some  Reflections on the Jamestown Experience

Hans van  Beinum
On Participative Democracy

David (P.G.)  Herbst
Design and Change in Ship Organization

Michel  Chevalier, Fred Carden and Glen Taylor
A Position Statement on  International Development: The Case of Sub-Saharan  Africa

Futures- Probable and Possible

Fred  Emery
Some Observations on Workplace Reform: The Australian  Experience

Howard Perlmutter and Eric Trist
Paradigms for  Societal Transition

Fred Emery
Epilogue: Orillia,  Searching for the Emerging Agenda

Fred  Emery
Afterword
 

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