Mike Jackson (systems scientist)
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Michael Christopher Jackson
Biography
Jackson studied
Jackson spent his academic life teaching at the
Jackson is a past President of the UK Systems Society, of the International Federation for Systems Research from 1996 to 2000, and of the International Society for the Systems Sciences in 2001. He has also served on the Council of the Operational Research Society. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, the Chartered Management Institute, the Cybernetics Society and the Operational Research Society.
Jackson is Editor-in-chief of the journal Systems Research and Behavioral Science, published by John Wiley, and he is on the editorial board of 5 other journals. He has delivered plenary addresses at numerous international conferences, and has undertaken many consultancy engagements with outside organisations, both commercial and non-profit.[4]
In 2009, his work was honored from the
Work
Jackson's teaching and research interests are
Publications
Jackson has written 5 books, edited 6 others and has published over 70 articles in refereed journals,[6] Books:
- 1991, Systems Methodology for the Management Sciences.
- 1991, Creative Problem Solving: Total Systems Intervention, with Robert L. Flood, Wiley. 268 p.
- 2000, Systems Approaches to Management, London: Springer 465 p.
- 2003, Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers, Wiley.
- 2019, Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity, Wiley.
Articles, a selection:
- 1993, with Robert L. Flood, "Critical Systems Thinking", in: Organization Studies Vol 14, p. 613.
Notes and references
- Stacey, Ralph D.Complexity and group processes: A radically social understanding of individuals. Routledge, 2003.
- ^ Werner Ulrich. "Beyond methodology choice: critical systems thinking as critically systemic discourse." Journal of the Operational Research Society 54.4 (2003): 325-342.
- ^ a b Emeritus Professor Mike C Jackson Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine at the Hull University Business School, retrieved Oct 2014.
- ^ These assignments have included the introduction of systems thinking into British Telecom at the senior management level; the development of I.T. strategy with P.A. Management Consulting Group; a national project to design evaluation systems for Councils for Voluntary Service; evaluation work with Humberside Training and Enterprise Council; and a study of organisational change in prisons.
- ^ "No. 59647". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2010. p. 11.
- ^ including Journal of Management Studies, Omega, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Systems Research, Systems Practice, SCOS, Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of General Systems, International Journal of Information Management, Kybernetes, System Dynamics Review, Organization.
External links
- Emeritus Professor Mike C Jackson at the Hull University Business School.
- Michael C. Jackson, IFSR Newsletter 34/35 - December 1994.