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Bibliography Stafford Beer Cwarel Isaf Institute Bibliography Stafford Beer Stand Juli 2000 www.managementkybernetik.com Erschienen: www.managementkybernetik.com Seite 1 von 19 © Copyright 2002 Cwarel Isaf Institute – All rights reserved Bibliography – Prof. Dr. Stafford Beer Cwarel Isaf Institute Contents Books ............................................................................................................................................... 3 Book Chapters ........................................................................................................................... 4 Pamphlets ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Prefaces .......................................................................................................................................... 6 Contributions ............................................................................................................................. 7 Papers............................................................................................................................................... 8 Articles .......................................................................................................................................... 13 Others ........................................................................................................................................... 15 Reviews ........................................................................................................................................ 16 Audio ............................................................................................................................................. 18 Video ............................................................................................................................................. 18 Letters ........................................................................................................................................... 18 Interviews .................................................................................................................................. 19 Obituaries ................................................................................................................................... 19 Erschienen: www.managementkybernetik.com Seite 2 von 19 © Copyright 2002 Cwarel Isaf Institute – All rights reserved Bibliography – Prof. Dr. Stafford Beer Cwarel Isaf Institute Books 1959 Cybernetics and Management; English Universities Press, London. John Wiley, New York. Reprinted 1960, 1965, New Edition (with New Chapter) 1967, reprinted 1970, 1971, 1973. Translated into Spanish, Russian, German Czech, Polish Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and French. 1966 Decision and Control; The Meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics. John Wiley, September 1966, reprinted 1967, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1988. (Awarded Lanchester Prize). Translated into Spanish. 1968 Management Science; The Business Use of Operational Research, Aldous books UK and USA, hardcover and paperback, February 1968. Translated into German, French, Swedish, Japanese, Finnish, Dutch and Norwegian. 1972 Brain of the Firm; Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London, Herder and Herder, USA. Translated into German, Italian, Swedish and French. 1974 Designing Freedom; CBC Learning Systems, Toronto, 1974; and John Wiley, London and New York, 1975. Translated into Spanish and Japanese. 1975 Platform For Change; John Wiley, London and New York. Reprinted with corrections 1978. 1977 Transit; Poems, CWRW Press, Wales. Limited Edition, Private Circulation. 1979 The Heart of Enterprise; John Wiley, London and New York. Reprinted with corrections 1988. 1981 Brain of the Firm; Second Edition (much extended), John Wiley, London and New York. Reprinted 1986, 1988. Translated into Russian. 1983 Transit; Poems, Second edition (much extended). With audio cassettes: Transit – Selected Readings, and one Person Metagame; Mitchell Communications, Publisher, PO Box 2878, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada. 1985 Diagnosing the System for Organisations; John Wiley, London and New York. Translated into Italian and Japanese. Reprinted 1988, 1990, 1991. 1986 Pebbles to Computer: The Thread; (with Hans Blohm), Oxford University Press, Toronto. 1994 Beyond Dispute: The Invention of Team Syntegrity; John Wiley, Chichester. 1994 How Many Grapes Went into the Wine: Stafford Beer on the Art and Science of Holisitic Management; Harnden, R and Leonard, A. (Eds.), John Wiley, Chichester. Chronicles of Wizard Prang; pending publication. Erschienen: www.managementkybernetik.com Seite 3 von 19 © Copyright 2002 Cwarel Isaf Institute – All rights reserved Bibliography – Prof. Dr. Stafford Beer Cwarel Isaf Institute Book Chapters 1962 Control Systems; Chapter VI in “Operational Research in Management”, English Universities Press, London. 1963 Operational Research; “The Principles and Practice of Management”, Ed. E.F.L. Brech. Part 5, Chapter IV, Longmans. 1964 Operational Research and Automation; “What Every Director Should Know about Automation”, Institute of Directors. 1965 The Electronic Firm; “Penguin Survey of Business and Industry”, Chapter 1, Ed. Rex Malik, Penguin. 1968 Operational Research and Accounting; “Studies in cost Analysis”, Ed. David Solomons, Sweet and Maxwell. 1969 Prospects of the Cybernetic Age; Chapter in “Survey of Cybernetics”, Ed. Rose, Iliffe. In Conclusion : Some Beginnings; (with Professor R.L. Ackoff) in “Progress in Operational Research”, Vol. III, John Wiley. 1969 The Aborting Corporate Plan; In “Perspectives of Planning”, OECD. 1970 What Kind of Future?; Last Chapter in “Which Way?2, Eds. Michael Ivens and Clive Bradley, Michael Joseph, London, 1970. 1972 The Liberty Machine; Chapter in “Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence and Ecology”, Spartaun Books. Portage, ME. Management in Cybernetic Terms; Chapter 9 in “Scientific Thought”, Mouton/Unesco. 1974 Lively Messages for Alert Management; in “Systems and Management Annual, 1974”, Ed. R.L.Ackoff, Petrocelli Books, New York. Notes on Adaptive Education; in “Systems and Management Annual, 1974”, Ed. R.L. Ackoff, Petrocelli Books, New York. 1978 The Real Meaning of Consensus is that New Ideas Are Out; in “What’s Wrong with Britain?”, Ed. Patrick Hutber, Chapter Eight, Sphere Books Limited, London, 1978. Forecasting: A Tool of Adaption; in “Forecasting and Planning”, Eds. R. Fields and D. Wood, Chapter Twelve, Saxon House, Gower Press, Aldershot, 1978. 1983 Questions of Quest; in “Introduction to Cybernetics; Theory and Applications”, Ed. Robert Trappl, Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, Washington DC, 1983. The Preposterous Interface; in “So this is 1984”, Eds. D. Parkhill and P. Enslow Jnr., International Council for Computer Communication, North Holland, Amsterdam. Erschienen: www.managementkybernetik.com Seite 4 von 19 © Copyright 2002 Cwarel Isaf Institute – All rights reserved Bibliography – Prof. Dr. Stafford Beer Cwarel Isaf Institute 1985 Der Wille Der Volke; Chapter in “Intergriertes Management”, Eds. G. Probst and H. Siegwart, Feschrift for Hans Ulrich, translated by F. Malik, Haupt. Bern and Stuttgart. 1986 Recursions of Power; Keynote Address to the Seventh European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, April, 1984. Chapter in Power, Autonomy, Utopia, Ed. R. Trappl, Plenum Press, New York, 1986. 1989 National Government: Disseminated Regulation in Real-Time, or How to Run A Coountry; Chapter 12 in The Viable Systems Model – Interpretations and Applications of Stafford Beer’s VSM, Eds. R. Espejo and R. Harnden, John Wiley, Chichester. The Evolution of a Management Cybernetic Process; Chapter 9 in The Viable Systems Model – Interpretations and Applications of Stafford Beer’s VS, Eds. R. Espejo and R. Harnden, John Wiley, Chichester. The Viable System Model: It’s Provenance, Developments, Methodology and Pathology; Chapter 1, in The Viable System Model – Interpretations and Applications of Stafford Beer’s VSM, Eds. R. Espejo and R. Harnden, John Wiley, Chichester. 1993 Liveley Messages for Alert Management; in “Wirtschafts-infomatic”, N. Niedereuchalz and W. Schuhmann, Campus/Verlag, Frankfurt/New York. Origins of Team Syntegrity; Chapter 4 in Organisational Fitness, Corporate Effectiveness hrough Management Cybernetics, Eds. R. Espejo and M. Schwaninger, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt. Erschienen: www.managementkybernetik.com Seite 5 von 19 © Copyright 2002 Cwarel Isaf Institute – All rights reserved Bibliography – Prof. Dr. Stafford Beer Cwarel Isaf Institute Pamphlets 1963 An Essay on Operational Research; Sigma Paper No. 1, Newmand Neame. Operational Research in Iron and Steel; Sigma Paper No. 3, Newmand Neame. Spanish Translation (by Sofemasa); La Investigacion Operativa en las Industrias Metalurgicas. 1964 The Theory of Or; Sigma Paper No. 8, Newmand Neame. 1969 Readings from Stafford Beer; Management Monographs No. 1, Ed. Frank S. Dreschsler, Irish University Press. 1970 Marlow Seventy; Operational Research Society, London. The Organisation of the Manchester Business School from Nineteen Seventy; University of Manchester. 1980 One Person Metagame; Stafford Beer Foundation, Toronto. Prefaces 1969 How to Manage Computers for Results; by D.N. Chorafas, Gee & Co. Ltd., London, 1969. 1971 Cybernetics and the Tax Law; by S. Foundos, Research Publication of the Certified Accountants. 1980 Autopoiesis and Cognition; By Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela. Riedel Publishing, Boston
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