Stafford Beer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stafford Beer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stafford |
| FAMILY NAME | Beer |
| SIGNATURE | BEER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sigma (Science in General Management Ltd.) Research Centre |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pebbles to Computers
Brain of the Firm
The Viable System Model: Its Provenance, Development, Methodology and Pathology
It took the author 30 years to develop the Viable System Model, which sets out to explain how systems are viable-that is, capable of independent existence. He wanted to elucidate the laws of viability in order to facilitate the management task, and did so in a stream of papers and two (of his seven) books. Much misunderstanding about the V.S.M. and its use seems to exist; especially its methodological foundations have been largely forgotten, whil…
Neurologie de l'entreprise
Platform for Change
Brain of the Firm: The Managerial Cybernetics of Organization
Beer is undoubtedly among the world's most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know. Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA. If . anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting it is Staff…
This Cybernetic World of Men, Machines and Earth Systems
The liberty machine
Managing modern complexity
Models for Decision
Journal Article Models for Decision Get access Models for Decision. Edited by C. M. Berners-Lee. (London: English Universities Press, 1965. Pp. x + 149. 25s.) Stafford Beer Stafford Beer Croydon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 76, Issue 301, 1 March 1966, Pages 112–114, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229052 Published: 01 March 1966
An Operational Research Approach to the Nature of Conflict
Models for Decision
Journal Article Models for Decision Get access Models for Decision. Edited by C. M. Berners-Lee. (London: English Universities Press, 1965. Pp. x + 149. 25s.) Stafford Beer Stafford Beer Croydon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 76, Issue 301, 1 March 1966, Pages 112–114, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229052 Published: 01 March 1966
An Operational Research Approach to the Nature of Conflict
Managing modern complexity
The liberty machine
This Cybernetic World of Men, Machines and Earth Systems
Brain of the Firm: The Managerial Cybernetics of Organization
Beer is undoubtedly among the world's most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know. Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA. If . anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting it is Staff…
Platform for Change
Neurologie de l'entreprise
The Viable System Model: Its Provenance, Development, Methodology and Pathology
It took the author 30 years to develop the Viable System Model, which sets out to explain how systems are viable-that is, capable of independent existence. He wanted to elucidate the laws of viability in order to facilitate the management task, and did so in a stream of papers and two (of his seven) books. Much misunderstanding about the V.S.M. and its use seems to exist; especially its methodological foundations have been largely forgotten, whil…
Brain of the Firm
Pebbles to Computers
Computer Science (8 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Complex Systems and Decision Making (4 works) · Cybernetics (4 works) · Engineering (4 works)