Boulding is famous for introducing a concept called " general systems theory, " in which single ideas could have a transformational impact on whole organizational systems.
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The scientific research field which is engaged in the interdisciplinary study of universal system-based properties of the world is general system theory, systems science and recently systemics.
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After moving to George Washington University, he was the moderator from 1977 to 1980, of a computer conference on general systems theory supported by the National Science Foundation.
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The term " systemics " was coined in the 1970s by Mario Bunge and others, as an alternative paradigm for research related to general systems theory and systems science.
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In 1993, in the Institute of Development Communication's faculty papers series, Alexander Flor proposed expanding the definition of development communication to include the perspective of cybernetics and general systems theory:
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Problem behavior is seen to result from the way an individual's characteristics affect and are affected by others . including ethnic, socioeconomic, and neighborhood backgrounds within a general systems theory framework.
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The study of complex systems in general has been grouped under the heading of " general systems theory ", particularly by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Anatol Rapoport, Ralph Gerard, and Kenneth Boulding.
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The "'Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute "'at the University of Michigan ( UM ) is an interdisciplinary research institute, which played a key role in the development of general systems theory.
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Prigogine's formal concept of self-organization was used also as a " complementary bridge " between General Systems Theory and thermodynamics, conciliating the cloudiness of some important systems theory concepts with scientific rigour.
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Self-organization was associated with general systems theory in the 1960s, but did not become commonplace in the scientific literature until physicists and complex systems researchers adopted it in the 1970s and 1980s.
