systems theory

British  

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

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Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2022

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

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2020

But as it turned out, complex systems theory was indeed what the Santa Fe Institute ended up concentrating on.

From Scientific American • Jun. 6, 2019

So, as Bassett moved to her postdoc at UC Santa Barbara, she added another type of analysis to her study of networks: dynamical systems theory, a way of modeling how network structure changes.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 11, 2019

One of the major hypotheses of this book is that discontinuities, also described in dynamic systems theory as phase shifts, occur as scale changes.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai