Systems thinking: learning or driving?

dc.contributor.authorCapelo, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorDias, João Ferreira
dc.contributor.institutionEscola de Ciências Económicas e das Organizações
dc.date.issued2007-04
dc.descriptionEconomia Global e Gestão - Global Economics and Management Review
dc.description.abstractThe ability to foresee how behaviour of a system arises from the interaction of its components over time - i.e. its dynamic complexity – is seen an important ability to take effective decisions in our turbulent world. Dynamic complexity emerges frequently from interrelated simple structures, such as stocks and flows, feedbacks and delays (Forrester, 1961). Common sense assumes an intuitive understanding of their dynamic behaviour. However, recent researches have pointed to a persistent and systematic error in people understanding of those building blocks of complex systems. This paper describes an empirical study concerning the native ability to understand systems thinking concepts. Two different groups - one, academic, the other, professional – submitted to four tasks, proposed by Sweeney and Sterman (2000) and Sterman (2002). The results confirm a poor intuitive understanding of the basic systems concepts, even when subjects have background in mathematics and sciences.en
dc.identifier.citationCapelo, C & Dias, J F 2007, 'Systems thinking: learning or driving?', Economia Global e Gestão - Global Economics and Management Review, pp. 149-165.
dc.identifier.issn0873-7444
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedno
dc.publisherISTCE Business School
dc.relation.ispartofEconomia Global e Gestão - Global Economics and Management Review
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.subjectSISTEMAS ECONÓMICOS
dc.subjectENSINO
dc.subjectGESTÃO
dc.subjectTEORIA DOS SISTEMAS
dc.subjectECONOMIC SYSTEMS
dc.subjectTEACHING
dc.subjectMANAGEMENT
dc.subjectSYSTEMS THEORIES
dc.titleSystems thinking: learning or driving?en
dc.typearticle

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