Magoroh Maruyama

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Magoroh Maruyama
Born(1929-04-29)April 29, 1929
DiedMarch 16, 2018(2018-03-16) (aged 88)
Academic background
Alma materLudwig Maximilian University of Munich
University of Heidelberg
University of Lund
Academic work
InstitutionsStanford University
Brandeis University
Antioch College
University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Illinois

Magoroh Maruyama (April 29, 1929 – March 16, 2018)[1] was a Japanese/American business educator, consultant and researcher, best known for his contributions to cybernetics.[2]

Biography

Maruyama was born in 1929 in Tokyo, Japan, son of Shinsaku Maruyama and Toyoko (Takashima) Maruyama, and moved to the United States in 1950. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1951. After postgraduate studies at the

University of Lund
in Sweden.

Maruyama started his academic career as assistant professor in human development at the

University of Illinois.[2]

Work

Magoroh Maruyama is the author of over a hundred publications.

US Department of Interior in the United States, the OECD, Volvo and Michelin in Europe, the MITI of Japan, the City of Baghdad, the Government of Ivory Coast and Federal Motors of Indonesia.[4]

His highly cited paper from 1963 "The second cybernetics: Deviation-amplifying mutual causal processes" describes a theory of increase of heterogeneity by

causal loops.[citation needed
]

Publications

Some of Maruyama's best known publications are:

  • Maruyama, Magoroh. "Morphogenesis and morphostasis." Methodos 12.48 (1960): 251-296.
  • Maruyama, Magoroh. "The second cybernetics: Deviation-amplifying mutual causal processes." American scientist 51.2 (1963): 164-179.
  • Maruyama, Magoroh. "Paradigmatology and its Application to Cross‐Disciplinary, Cross‐Professional and Cross‐Cultural Communication." Dialectica 28.3‐4 (1974): 135-196.
  • Maruyama, Magoroh. "Heterogenistics and morphogenetics." Theory and society 5.1 (1978): 75-96.
  • Maruyama, Magoroh, Beals, K.L. & Bharati, A. "Mindscapes and Science Theories [and Comments and Reply]." Current anthropology 21.5 (1980): 589-608.
  • Maruyama, Magoroh. "Alternative concepts of management: Insights from Asia and Africa." Asia Pacific Journal of Management 1.2 (1984): 100-111.
  • Maruyama, Magoroh (editor). "Context and Complexity: cultivating contextual understanding". New York: Springer-Verlag. 1991.

References

  1. ^ dignitymemorial.com, accessed 21.03.2018.
  2. ^ a b Holloman, R. E., & Arutiunov, S. A. (Eds.). (1978). Perspectives on ethnicity. Walter de Gruyter.
  3. ^ "Professor Maruyama's bibliography". heterogenistics.org. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  4. ^ a b "Some notes about the research of Professor Magoroh Maruyma". heterogenistics.org. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
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