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Systems thinking in its traditional form embraces such related approaches as operational research, systems analysis, systems engineering and management cybernetics. Modern systems thinking must be taken to include, in addition, more recent trends such as “soft systems thinking”.
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Jackson, M.C. (1989). Future Prospects in Systems Thinking. In: Flood, R.L., Jackson, M.C., Keys, P. (eds) Systems Prospects. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0845-4_13
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