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In the period since the Second World War, systems theory has experienced a series of scientific revolutions or fundamental reorientations of its research perspective. This means that its research findings have thoroughly changed the concept of a system itself. Contemporary systems theory is founded on the distinction between systems and environment.

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    Kaj U. Koskinen & Rainer Breite

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Koskinen, K.U., Breite, R. (2020). Systems. In: Uninterrupted Knowledge Creation. SpringerBriefs in Business. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57303-4_2

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