Synonyms

systems theory

British

noun

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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Pulling on threads from psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and systems theory, Frade's thinking rejected the common belief that technical, tactical, physical and psychological parts of football should be treated as separate things.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

Our analogy to calculus is the development of systems theory, chaos math and the much-celebrated fractal.

From Open Source Democracy by Douglas Rushkoff

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