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SYSTEMS RESEARCH and EHAVIORAL SCIENCE VOLUME CONTENTS — VOLUME 18, ISSUE Nos.1-6 Volume 18 Number | January—February 2001 l Editorial Mike C. Jackson The Quest for Competence in Systemic Research and Practice Werner Ulrich Systems Approach to Knowledge Development for Creating New Products and Services John Pourdehnad and Patrick J. Robinson Towards Unifying Science: Applying Concepts Across Disciplinary Boundaries Kenneth D. Bailey Certain Similarities Between the Evolution of Cooperation and Phase Transitions in Physics Stavros Theodorakis Systems Hierarchies and Management Dante P. Martinelli How to Become a System Guru? The Path to Energize System Gurus of the New Millennium to Make System Science More Credible John P. van Gigch News Book Reviews Volume 18 Number 2 March-April 2001 101 Guest Editorial: Systemic Research on Competence and Competence Development in SMEs Stig C. Holmberg A Holistic Approach to Competence Development Lennart Sundberg Competence Development and Learning Organizations: A Critical Analysis of Practical Guidelines and Methods Ulrica Léfstedt iv Volume Contents 127 Taking Syntegrity-4 from Assumption Mode to Reflection Mode Stig C. Holmberg Intelligent Organizations: An Integrative Framework Markus Schwaninger The Forgotten Revenue of Product Development: Learning New Competence Jan Osterlund Multi-Modal Systems Method: The Impact of Normative Factors on Community Viability Veronica D. de Raadt Multi-Modal Investigation of a Business Process and Information System Redesign: A Post-Implementation Case Study Darek M. Eriksson Volume 18 Number 3 May-June 2001 197 Editorial Mike C. Jackson On Misdirected Systems Russell L. Ackoff and John Pourdehnad A Sociological Systems Theory of Interorganizational Network Development in Health and Social Care Arno van Raak and Aggie Paulus New Regional Community Creation, Medical and Educational Applications through Video-Based Information Networks Mitsuru Kodama ‘Effective Governance’ Through Complexity Thinking and Management Science Leroy White Creating Transforming Leadership for Organizational Change: The CogniScope System Approach Larry A. Magliocca and Alexander N. Christakis News Book Review Volume 18 Number 4 July-August 2001 283 Guest Editorial: Designing Educational Systems for the Twenty — First Century Patrick M. Jenlink We Enter the Twenty — First Century with Schooling Designed in the Nineteenth Bela H. Banathy On the Opening of Society: Towards a More Open and Flexible Educational System Minna Takala, David Hawk and Yannis Rammos Volume Contents v The Epistemological Foundations of Evolutionary Systems Design Alexander Laszlo Appreciative Design Karen E. Norum Narrative Inquiry: Designing the Processes, Pathways and Patterns of Change Peggy B. Gill Activity Theory and the Design of Educational Systems: Examining the Mediational Importance of Conversation Patrick M. Jenlink Post—Formal Design Conversation: Designing Just and Caring Educational Systems Raymond A. Horn Jr. News Volume 18 Number 5 September—October 2001 377 Guest Editorial: ISSS Yearbook 2000 Jennifer M. Wilby Learning, Design, and Action: Creating the Conditions for Evolutionary Learning Community Kathia Castro Laszlo Laws of Geometric Systems Curt McNamara Natural Philosophy and Developmental Systems Stanley N. Salthe Cybernetics and the Social Sciences Bernard Scott Cybersemiotics: A Reconceptualization of the Foundation for Information Science Soren Brier Management Observation and Communication Theory and Organizational Information G. A. Swanson News Volume 18 Number 6 November—December 2001 445 Editorial M. C. Jackson 447 Autopoiesis, Agency and Accident: Criteria for the Attribution of Life W. Cameron vi Volume Contents 461 Are Organizations Autopoietic? A Call for New Debate Robert Kay An Axiological Systems Theory: Some Basic Hypotheses Francisco Parra-Luna Adaptation to Creation: Progress of Organizational Learning and Increasing Complexity of Learning Systems K. Unnikrishnan Nair Product, Process and Methodology Systematization to Handle Structural and Computational Complexity in Product Realization Biren Prasad Systems Theory and the Spirit of Feminism: Grounds for a Connection Barbara Hanson On Turing’s Carnal Error: Some Guidelines for A Contextual Inquiry into the Embodied Mind Yair Neuman Emergent Properties: A Fundamental Postulate of Classical Systems Theory in Schematic Representation Joseph Germana Flexibility Metaphors Sushil Book Review Author Index Keyword Index Volume Contents