Below are some recent papers by members of the Research Program. We have also assembled abstracts arranged by academic year. Please refer to this page for papers in other languages. For older papers, go here. For papers that use the Participatory Strategic Planning methods developed by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, refer to this page. For papers using a Quality Improvement Priority Matrix, a method for continuous process improvement, see this page. For papers on Cross-Cultural Management, see this page. 2012 Umpleby, Stuart, "A Second Expansion of Science" (Slides) (Audio lecture) 2011 Umpleby, Stuart, "Second Order Economics as an Example of Second Order Cybernetics" (Paper) (Slides) 2010 Umpleby, Stuart, "Science 2: Is A Broader Conception Of Science Still Science?" (Paper) (Slides) Umpleby, Stuart, "From Complexity to Reflexivity: The Next Step in the Systems Sciences" (Paper) Umpleby, Stuart, "The Financial Crisis: What Happened and How We Need to Change our Thinking" (Paper) Elizabeth Corona and Bradley Thomas, "A New Perspective on the Early History of the American Society for Cybernetics" (Paper) 2009 Stuart Umpleby and Emil Nedev, "A Reflexive view of a Transdisciplinary Field: The Case of Cybernetics" (Slides) Umpleby, Stuart, "Ross Ashby’s General Theory of Adaptive Systems" (Paper) Stuart Umpleby, Min Cho and Mateo Ruggia, "How Research in Cybernetics is Moving from North America to Europe and Other Regions" (Paper) 2008 Stuart Umpleby, "Russian-American Discussions of Cybernetics and Systems Science" (Slides) 2007 Umpleby, Stuart, "Reflexivity in Social Systems: The Theories of George Soros." (Paper) Umpleby, Stuart, "Physical Relationships Among Matter, Energy and Information." (Paper) (Slides)
Umpleby, Stuart, "Unifying Epistemologies by Combining World, Description and Observer." (Paper) (Slides)
2006 Umpleby, Stuart, "Cybernetics." Prepared for the International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. (Paper) Umbleby, Stuart, "The Viable System Model." Prepared for the International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. (Paper) Umpleby, Stuart, "Cybernetics as a Language for Interdisciplinary Communication." (Abstract) (Slides) Umpleby, Stuart, "Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics: A Tutorial." (Slides and exercises) 2005 Umpleby, Stuart, "What I learned from Heinz von Foerster about the Construction of Science." (Paper) (Figures)
2003
Umpleby, Stuart, "Heinz von Foerster and the Mansfield Amendment." (Paper) 2002 Umpleby, Stuart, "The Design of Intellectual Movements." (Paper) (Slides) Umpleby, Stuart, "Organization of Regulation of the Global Economy." (Paper) Umpleby, Stuart, "Should Knowledge of Management Be Organized as Theories or as Methods?" (Paper) (Slides) 2001 Umpleby, Stuart, "Two Kinds of General Theories in Systems Science." (Paper) Umpleby, Stuart, "What Comes After Second Order Cybernetics?" (Paper) 2000 Umpleby, Stuart, "Knowledge Management from the Perspective of Systems
Theory and Cybernetics." (Paper)
Umpleby, Stuart and Eric Dent, "The Origins and Purposes of Several Traditions in Systems Theory and Cybernetics." (Paper)
Dent, Eric, and Stuart Umpleby, "Underlying Assumptions of Several Traditions in Systems Theory and Cybernetics." (Paper)
1996
Umpleby, Stuart and Pavel Makeyenko, "A Comparison of the Stability of the Socio-Economic Systems of the United States and Russia." (Paper)
1994 Umpleby, Stuart, "Cybernetics of Conceptual Systems." (Paper) 1992 Umpleby, Stuart, "Mindwalk: Systems Practice in Hollywood." (Paper) 1991 Umpleby, Stuart, "Strategies for Winning Acceptance of Second Order Cybernetics." (Paper) 1990 Umpleby, Stuart, "Comparing Conceptual Systems: A Strategy for Changing Values as well as Institutions." (Paper)
Umpleby, Stuart, "A Preliminary Inventory of Theories Available to Guide the Reform of Socialist Societies." (Paper)
1989 Umpleby, Stuart, "The Science of Cybernetics and the Cybernetics of Science." (Paper) Umpleby, Stuart, "Strategies for Regulating The Global Economy." (Paper) 1987 Umpleby, Stuart, "Some Policy Implications of Lefebvre's Theory of Ethical Cognition." (Paper) Umpleby, Stuart, "American and Soviet Discussions of the Foundations of Cybernetics and General System Theory." (Paper) Umpleby, Stuart, "Science One and Science Two." (Paper) Umpleby, Stuart, "Three Conceptions of Conversation." (Paper) 1986 Umpleby, Stuart, "The International Network of Systems Theorists." (Article)
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