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Systems Thinking

In: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research
Edited by: David Coghlan & Mary Brydon-Miller

Systems thinking is an approach to understanding and improving complex issues and situations. It attempts to deal with these as wholes rather than through the reductionism of conventional science. Reductionism understands complex issues by examining smaller and smaller parts. Systems thinking sees the whole as different from the sum of its parts, because of the interactions ...

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  Coghlan, D., & Brydon-Miller, M. (2014). Systems thinking. In The SAGE encyclopedia of action research (pp. 753-754). SAGE Publications Ltd, https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406.n333
  
  Coghlan, David, and Mary Brydon-Miller. "Systems Thinking." In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research, edited by Coghlan, David, and Mary Brydon-Miller, 753-54. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406.n333.
  
  Coghlan, D. and Brydon-Miller, M. 2014. Systems Thinking. In: David Coghlan and Mary Brydon-Miller Editors, 2014. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research, London: SAGE Publications Ltd. pp. 753-754 Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406.n333> [Accessed 26 Jun 2022].
  
  Coghlan, David and Mary Brydon-Miller. "Systems Thinking." The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research. Edited by London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014, pp. 753-54. SAGE Research Methods. 26 Jun 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406.n333.
  
  Coghlan, David, and Mary Brydon-Miller (2014). Systems thinking In:Systems thinking The SAGE encyclopedia of action research London: SAGE Publications Ltd; 2014:753-754. doi:10.4135/9781446294406.n333
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