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Its introduction in the 1960s transformed our understanding of organizations because of its concern with the organization in its environment. In neither kind of approach does the organisational aspect of the. The systems approach received attention from management scholars in the middle of the last century, but, since then, has been largely abandoned. Handbook of the philosophical foundations of business ethics pp 14091431 cite as. Handbook of organization theory and management 2nd edition. This chapter explores the history of an open systems approach to the study of management and organizations, and the way in which it has become a takenforgranted, institutionalized part of organization theory. Handbook of organization theory and management the.
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