Source: The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1963), p. 22.
Fred Emery: System
Fred Emery was Australian psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on system.F. E. Emery (1980) in " This Week’s Citation Classic http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1980/A1980KT80900001.pdf" in: CC. Nr. 52. Dec 29, 1980. p. 292: Emery reflecting on his 1963 article "The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments" with Eric Trist.
Frederick Edmund Emery (ed.) (1969) Systems thinking: selected readings Penguin, p. 7: Beginning of editorial by Fred Emery.
Source: The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1963), p. 29.
Source: The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1963), p. 21.
Russell L. Ackoff and Fred Emery (1972) On purposeful systems, cited in: Lloyd Dobyns, Clare Crawford-Mason (1994) Thinking about quality: progress, wisdom, and the Deming philosophy. p. 40.