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| Author: | Lane, D. |
| Title: | Should system dynamics be described as a "hard" or "deterministic" systems approach? |
| Journal: | Systems Research and Behavioral Science
2000 : JAN-FEB, VOL. 17:1, p. 3-22 |
| Index terms: | SYSTEMS SCIENCE BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE RESEARCH |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper explores the criticism that system dynamics is a "hard" or "deterministic" systems approach. This critisism is seen to have four interpretations and each is addressed from the perspectives of social theory and systems science. Firstly, system dynamics is shown to offer not prophecies but Popperian predictions. Secondly, it is shown to involve the view that system structure only partially, not fully, determines human behavior. |
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