Systemic Change Through Praxis and Inquiry

Arne Collen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351323505
• Subtopic: Organisational Behaviour
• Index: Business

This new volume in the distinguished Praxiology series examines the confluence of praxiology, pragmatics, and systemics in the study of systemic change through human inquiry, particularly small group activities, human organizations, and globalizing trends. It covers core concepts indigenous to organizational life. The author presents and subsequently integrates several conceptual schemes relevant to human beings and small groups engaged in human inquiry for systemic change in organizational settings.

Each key concept in the volume is covered in a chapter theme that articulates the praxiology and pragmatics of human inquiry. Chapter 1 examines change as a systemic idea from a research methodologist's point of view. Chapter 2 articulates numerous points to distinguish systemic from non-systemic research methods to bring about systemic change. Chapter 3 discusses the prevalence of hierarchy and control. Chapter 4 focuses on "disciplinarity," viewed as one kind of quest for understanding complexity and change. Chapter 5 describes praxiology in inquiry. Chapter 6 elaborates on emergent forms of praxiology. Chapter 7 demonstrates the viability of systemic change through praxiology. Chapter 8 targets the general features of research process that are the means to effectuate systemic change, while Chapter 9 elaborates on these means toward developing systemic inquiry to systemic change. Chapter 10 discusses "complexification" in human inquiry and systemic change.

Systemic Change Through Praxis and Inquiry is a pioneering effort to attain a more integrated view of research methodology for human inquiry. It will be of great interest to students of business, management, and organizational studies.

Arne Collen is a long-standing member of both the Executive Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco and the Research and Teaching Adjunct Faculty in the California College of Organizational Studies and the California College of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University, San Francisco Bay Campus. He is a research methodologist, who, over the last three decades, has applied systemic and sociocybernetic perspectives to advances in research methodology for human inquiry. With Wojciech W. Gasparski, he is co-editor of Design and Systems, Volume 3 of the Praxiology series.

Index

Accessibility 86–88

Accretion 95–96, 103, 153, 258

Achilles 23

Ackoff, R. 84, 98, 222

Action research 16, 79, 204, 248

Activities 24, 49, 81, 111, 132, 145, 172, 211, 237, 273

Analogy 140

Analysis 59–60, 154, 243

Analytic 59, 64, 278

Antimony 253

Applicability 86, 89–90

Argyris, C. 71

Availability 86–87

Axiology 41, 92–93, 100

Bateson, G. 126

Beer, S. 61, 84, 222

Bertalanffy, von L. 28, 84

Bias 65–66

Body 31–33

Boulding, K. 30

Boundedness 102, 164

Bourdeau. L. 10

Bunge, M. 10

Case study 69–70

Casti, J. 239

Checkland, P. 84, 219

Churchman, C. 130

Coherence 140–142, 202

Collaborative 73–74, 207, 215, 224, 252, 262–263

Collective consciousness 79–80, 214–215

Collen, A. 10, 61, 95–96, 108, 113, 140, 161, 170–171, 195, 218, 230

Competition 73–74

Complementarity 33, 73, 253

Complexification 33, 42, 44, 61, 69, 92, 110, 125, 130, 135, 162, 175, 195, 205–208, 220, 227, 239–244, 256–258, 264, 271–273, 280

Complexificative 61–62, 206...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Editorial
• Introduction
• Change as a Systemic Idea
• Distinguishing Systemic from Non Systemic
• Hierarchy and Control
• Disciplinarity
• Es of Praxiology in Inquiry
• Emergent Forms of Praxiology
• Systemic Change Through Praxiology
• Research Process
• Developing Human Inquiry for Systemic Change
• Complexification
• Conclusion
• References
• List of Figures and Tables
• Index
• About the Author