This essay examines some of the values and assumptions of General Systems Theory (GST) in an attempt to show that: (1) Many concepts composing GST constitute nonrefutable hypotheses which serve the ...

In the middle of the 16th century, a 22-year-old law student in France named Etienne de la Boétie wrote an essay entitled "Discourse of Voluntary Servitude" that was circulated among academics for ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The area of investigation known as general systems theory or research features the study of systems as interesting in its own right or one ...

The system approach principle places individual system elements in their environments and observes the relationships between them. Instead of studying a specific phenomenon first – an automobile ...