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In this paper six scenarios for the future of systems “problem solving” are investigated in order to ascertain whether an approach can be identified (a) that offers prospects for the long-term survival and success of systems problem solving in practice and (b) that does this without incorporating theoretical contradictions. The six approaches come under the four class headings pragmatism, isolationism, imperialism, and pluralism. The theoretical foundations of each approach are explored in a discursive fashion. This makes explicit to systems practitioners the underlying principles on which their activities are overlaid and puts such approaches into the theoretical context of the six approaches identified herein.
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Flood, R.L. Six scenarios for the future of systems “problem solving”. Systems Practice 2, 75–99 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01061618
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