systems theory

noun

1. an approach to industrial relations which likens the enterprise to an organism with interdependent parts, each with its own specific function and interrelated responsibilities

Example Sentences

Today, developmental systems theory supersedes the dominant, unidirectional causality previously lodged with genes.

From Slate

Rao got his Ph.D. in 2003 in systems theory from the University of Michigan, but in 2007 he founded a blog called Ribbonfarm, which has gained a reputation for seeding ideas that become common wisdom months or years later.

From New York Times

Or a new framework will emerge from cybernetics, control theory, complexity and dynamical systems theory, semantics and semiotics.

From The Guardian

Mathematical psychologist Anatol Rapoport, a founder of general systems theory, once used an amusing baseball anecdote to illustrate knowledge certainty.

From Washington Times

Much of the control over the corporate world now appears to be in the hands of a single “super-entity,” according to “The Network of Global Corporate Control,” a 2011 study produced by three systems theory researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

From Salon