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

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

We were learning about systems theory and the interdependency of ecosystems, how trees communicate and send messages and medicines to other parts of the forest, and draw up water to share with other plants.

From The Guardian • May 4, 2018

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