Recent developments in managerial cybernetics, systems thinking and practice address the issues of growing complexity in organisations and between them and their environments. This paper will set the scene for consideration of these methodologies by defining the general area of interest, stressing the importance and urgency of the subject and indicating in what ways management currently fails to cope with complexity.
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