Overview
- Provides insights on how to address problems within complex situations
- Gives a broad overview of the conditions that will be encountered in complex situations
- Provides a nascent theoretical foundation for the study of complex situations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (TSRQ, volume 21)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theory on Wicked Problems and Complex Situations
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Front Matter
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Description of Wicked Problems
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Keywords
About this book
With so many terms available to define the same thing, it would seem nearly irresponsible to introduce yet another term (complex situation) to describe a phenomenological state of such as a system. However, a complex situation infers both a broader meaning and imposes a different perspective. Complex in this context is dependent on understanding and reality rather than observer and knowledge. Situation imposes a gestalt that cannot be characterized within a singular perspective that relegates paradox to a superior/subordinate hierarchy. This also infers that complex situation has no monotonic definition or each definition is by default incomplete. Therefore the perennial derivations for systems such as complex systems, system of systems, federation of systems is no longer a sufficient descriptor for complex situation. Ergo system and its genealogy lack the constitution to define complex situations. The books' intent is to explore this pathology through a series of papers written by authors that work in complex situations and have dealt with the limitations of the status quo: systems.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing and Engineering in Complex Situations
Editors: Samuel F. Kovacic, Andres Sousa-Poza
Series Title: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5515-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5514-7Published: 02 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9876-2Published: 07 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5515-4Published: 15 February 2013
Series ISSN: 1566-0443
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0285
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 267
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Complexity, Social Sciences, general, Business and Management, general