Stafford Beer

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Stafford Beer

Stafford Beer is affiliated with the following schools: University of Sussex, Victoria University of Manchester, Lancaster University, University College London, Johns Hopkins University, University of Manchester, University of Pennsylvania

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Stafford Beer

Engineering

#27

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#54

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Cybernetics

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Why Is Stafford Beer Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Anthony Stafford Beer was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. He is best known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics.

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Stafford Beer's Published Works

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Published Works

The Brain of the Firm (1972) (1194)
The Viable System Model: Its Provenance, Development, Methodology and Pathology (1984) (716)
Cybernetics and Management (1960) (419)
Decision and Control: The Meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics (1966) (354)
Brain of the Firm: The Managerial Cybernetics of Organization (1972) (268)
Platform for Change (1995) (213)
Redesigning the Future: A Systems Approach to Societal Problems (1976) (167)
Prediction and Optimal Decision: Philosophical Issues of a Science of Values (1963) (76)
Brain of the Firm: A Development in Management Cybernetics. (1972) (73)
What is cybernetics (1959) (67)
The Will of the People (1983) (62)
What has Cybernetics to do with Operational Research (1959) (47)
Management science : the business use of operations research (1967) (37)
The heart of enterprise : the managerial cybernetics of organization (1994) (34)
World in Torment: A Time Whose Idea Must Come (1993) (33)
Managing modern complexity (1970) (30)
The World, The Flesh and The Metal: The Prerogatives of Systems (1965) (26)
Platform for Change: A Message from Stafford Beer (1975) (19)
The liberty machine (1971) (16)
On suicidal rabbits: A relativity of systems (1990) (13)
On the Nature of Models: Let us Now Praise Famous Men and Women, from Warren McCulloch to Candace Pert (1999) (12)
Operational Research and Accounting (1954) (11)
The world we manage (1973) (11)
Holism and the Frou‐Frou Slander (1988) (11)
May the Whole Earth Be Happy: Loka Samastat Sukhino Bhavantu (1994) (11)
Recursions of Power (1986) (10)
Fanfare for Effective Freedom : Cybernetic Praxis in Government Stafford Beer 1973 (2007) (10)
Reflections of a Cybernetician on the practice of planning (1991) (9)
Systematics A New Approach to System Analysis (1976) (8)
I am the Emperor — and I want dumplings (1989) (8)
Pebbles to Computers: The Thread (1987) (8)
Experiment—A Series of Scientific Case Histories (1964) (8)
Recursion zero: Metamanagement (1990) (7)
The Productivity Index in Active Service (1955) (6)
The culpabliss error: A calculus of ethics for a systemic world (1997) (6)
An Operational Research Project on Technical Education (1962) (5)
Let Use Now Praise Famous Men—And Women Too (from Warren McCulloch to Candace Pert) (1999) (5)
May the Whole Earth Be Happy (2006) (5)
Joint Plenary Session — O. R. S. and T. I. M. S. Questions of Metric (1971) (4)
Operational Research as Revelation: Inaugural Address by the President, 14 January 1970 (1970) (4)
An Operational Research Approach to the Nature of Conflict (1966) (4)
Theory of hierarchical, multilevel systems, M.D. Mesarovic, D. Macko, Y. Takahara (Eds.). Academic Press, New York (1970), 294 +xiii pp., $15.00/£7.00. (1971) (4)
Man in a garrulous silence (1996) (4)
The Law and the Profits (1971) (4)
Quantity and quality : the Hayden colloquium on scientific method and concept (1963) (4)
Models for decision (1965) (4)
A filigree friendship (2001) (3)
Cybernetics— A Systems Approach to Management (1972) (3)
Management information systems, S.C. Blumenthal (Ed.). Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. (1969), 219 +xvi pp. (1971) (3)
Book Review:Prediction and Optimal Decision: Philosophical Issues of a Science of Values C. West Churchman (1963) (3)
The Reduction and Presentation of Experimental Results (1958) (2)
Maths Created (1969) (2)
Immanent Forms Of Imminent Crisis (1974) (2)
The prerogatives of systems (1969) (2)
May the whole earth be happy:Loka Samastat Sukhino Bhavantu (1994) (2)
Obituary: Professor W. Ross Ashby (1973) (2)
TECHNOLOGY, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIETY by Peter F. Drucker 182 pages. £1.80. Heinemann, London. (1971) (2)
For Gordon, with love (2007) (1)
The Place of Nature in Operational Research Science (1962) (1)
The Rationalization of Industrial Decision Processes (1958) (1)
The Preposterous Inference (1985) (1)
A Technique for Standardising Massed Batteries of Control Charts (1953) (1)
On the Nature of Models: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Women, Too (1999) (1)
Death is equifinal: Eighth annual ludwig von bertalanffy memorial lecture (1981) (1)
Isoplus n: Interpolating an Additive Cycle in a Multiplicative Multistage Nomograph (1955) (1)
Self-Organizing Systems (2006) (1)
An Open Reply from the President (1970) (0)
Presentation of Wiener Gold Medal to Dr. Candace Pert (2001) (0)
CONFERENCES : A CAll TO EXPERIMENT by Stafford Beer (2007) (0)
Letter to the Editor - Comments on a Letter by Woolsey (1973) (0)
The Cybernetic Direction@@@Cybernetics and Management. (1985) (0)
[Obituary] (1935) (0)
Engineering Cybernetics (1969) (0)
V Metaconferencing Techniques (2007) (0)
Operational research and personnel management (1959) (0)
Roger Tatham Eddison: an appreciation (2000) (0)
Re-Enacted Cybernetics (1969) (0)
Pebbles to Computers (1988) (0)
The 1956 George Bray Memorial Lecture. Report and discussion (1957) (0)
MEMORANDUM MARKING HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY (2000) (0)
Operational Research in Consulting: Sigma (1965) (0)
Stafford Beer: The Falcondale Collection (1994) (0)
Book Notes (1986) (0)
Socio-economic systems ; Cybernetics of cognition and learning ; Systems education ; Cybernetics in organization and management ; Special aspects (1975) (0)
Decision and control : reading from Stafford Beer (1969) (0)
Leader–June 1970: The Marlow Plan 1970 (1970) (0)
The 1956 George Bray Memorial Lecture: The scope for operational research in industry (1957) (0)
A Step Beyond OR (1985) (0)
International Operational Research (1960) (0)

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