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Russell L. Ackoff

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PhD Philosophy University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Russell Lincoln Ackoff was an American organizational theorist, consultant, and Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Ackoff was a pioneer in the field of operations research, systems thinking and management science.

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Russell L. Ackoff's Published Works

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From Data to Wisdom (2014) (1450)
Towards a System of Systems Concepts (1971) (1067)
The Future of Operational Research is Past (1979) (1055)
Management misinformation systems (1967) (717)
On purposeful systems (1972) (661)
Introduction to operations research (1957) (530)
Creating the Corporate Future: Plan or be Planned For (1981) (521)
A Concept of Corporate Planning. (1972) (458)
Resurrecting the Future of Operational Research (1979) (422)
An Approximate Measure of Value (1954) (392)
Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management (1999) (317)
Re-Creating the Corporation: A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century (1999) (309)
Scientific Method Optimizing Applied Research Decisions (1962) (292)
Redesigning the Future, a Systems Approach to Societal Problems (1977) (291)
The Art and Science of Mess Management (1981) (286)
Fundamentals of operations research (1968) (200)
Systems thinking and thinking systems (1994) (182)
Science in the Systems Age: Beyond IE, OR, and MS (1973) (164)
Mechanisms, organisms and social systems (1984) (157)
The systems revolution (1974) (156)
The Design of Social Research (1954) (147)
Optimization + objectivity = optout (1977) (140)
The art of problem solving : accompanied by Ackoff's fables (1979) (136)
Towards a Behavioral Theory of Communication (1958) (107)
Creativity in problem solving and planning: a review (1981) (105)
Why few organizations adopt systems thinking (2006) (102)
Progress in Operations Research. (1961) (102)
Reflections on systems and their models (1996) (99)
On Learning and the Systems That Facilitate It (1999) (85)
Presidents' Symposium: OR, A Post Mortem (1987) (73)
The Development of Operations Research as a Science (1956) (73)
The Democratic Corporation: A Radical Prescription for Recreating Corporate America and Rediscovering Success (1994) (71)
Re-Creating the Corporation (1999) (70)
Idealized design: Creative corporate visioning (1993) (67)
The Social Responsibility of Operational Research (1974) (67)
BEYOND PREDICTION AND PREPARATION [I] (1983) (64)
Systems, Messes and Interactive Planning (1997) (63)
Does Quality of Life Have to be Quantified (1976) (63)
TRANSFORMING THE SYSTEMS MOVEMENT (2004) (62)
A Systemic View of Transformational Leadership (1998) (57)
The Circular Organization: An Update (1989) (54)
Idealized design : creating an organization's future (2006) (53)
A Black Ghetto's Research on a University (1970) (53)
Purposive Behavior and Cybernetics (1950) (52)
Unsuccessful Case Studies and Why (1960) (51)
Idealized Design: How to Dissolve Tomorrow's Crisis...Today (2006) (48)
Towards flexible organizations: A multidimensional design (1977) (47)
Continuous improvement-I (1991) (46)
On the use of models in corporate planning (1981) (45)
National Development Planning Revisited (1977) (45)
Management in Small Doses (1989) (45)
‘whole‐ing’ the parts and righting the wrongs (2007) (45)
Ethics and Science (1947) (44)
OR: after the post mortem (2001) (43)
On misdirected systemsa (2001) (43)
Toward systemic education of systems scientists (1985) (42)
Business ethics and the entrepreneur (1987) (38)
Some Unsolved Problems in Problem Solving (1962) (38)
A prologue to national development planning (1986) (35)
A Manager's Guide to Operations Research (1963) (34)
An Experimental Measure of Personality (1947) (33)
Systems Thinking for Curious Managers: With 40 New Management f-Laws (2008) (31)
Methods of Inquiry: An Introduction to Philosophy and Scientific Method (1951) (28)
Varieties of Unification (1946) (27)
A Guide To Controlling Your Corporation's Future (1984) (26)
Allocation of Sales Effort in the Lamp Division of the General Electric Company (1956) (23)
An Interactive View of Rationality (1983) (22)
Systems Theory from an Operations Research Point of View (1965) (22)
Terrorism: a systemic view (2003) (22)
Operations Research and National Planning (1957) (21)
Ackoff's fables : irreverent reflections on business and bureaucracy (1991) (20)
On Passing Through 80 (1999) (20)
A theory of practice in the social systems sciences (1988) (19)
Designing a National Scientific and Technological Communication System: The SCATT Report (1976) (19)
A Note on Systems Science (1972) (18)
A Reply to the Comments of Keith Chesterton, Robert Goodsman, Jonathan Rosenhead and Colin Thunhurst (1975) (18)
CorporatePerestroika: The internal market economy (1993) (18)
Some Ideas on Education in the Management Sciences (1970) (17)
Strategies, systems, and organizations: An interview with Russell L. Ackoff (1997) (17)
On misdirecting management (2002) (16)
A Manager's Guide to Operational Research. (1963) (16)
Stress, Alcoholism, and Personality (1982) (16)
Creating the corporate future: Russell L. Ackoff (2005) (15)
A Report on Some Organizational Experiments (1959) (15)
Disciplines, the two cultures, and the scianities (1999) (14)
Ackoff's Fables (1991) (14)
The Dissemination and Use of Recorded Scientific Information (1963) (13)
The management of change and the changes it requires of management (1990) (13)
A Comparison of Operational Research in the U.S.A. and in Great Britain (1957) (11)
It's a mistake! (1994) (11)
Explanatory models of interactive choice behavior (1970) (11)
The Corporation as a Community, Not as a Corpus (2002) (11)
Higher Education and Social Stratification (1994) (10)
Beating the System: Using Creativity to Outsmart Bureaucracies (2005) (9)
Fundamentalism and Panaceas (2001) (9)
A major mistake that managers make (2006) (9)
C. West Churchman (1988) (8)
The Role of Research in Underdeveloped Countries (1968) (8)
ON THE MISMATCH BETWEEN SYSTEMS AND THEIR MODELS (2003) (7)
Free For All (1968) (7)
Frontiers of Management Science (1971) (7)
The opportunity quest separates real leaders from managers (2003) (7)
What's Wrong with "What's Wrong With" (2003) (7)
It can't be... (1996) (7)
The revitalization of alcoa's tennessee operations (1984) (6)
Production and Inventory Control in a Chemical Process (1955) (6)
Revitalizing western economies (1984) (6)
The irresponsibility and ineffectiveness of downsizing (1997) (6)
Measurement of consumer interest (1947) (5)
Much Tqm Today is Neither Total, Quality, Nor Management Beyond Total Quality Management (1993) (5)
Continuous improvement-II (1991) (5)
A Basic Look at Operations Research@@@A Review Article on A Manager's Guide to Operations Research (1968) (5)
The Use of Simulation as a Pedagogical Device (1966) (5)
On a Science of Ethics (1949) (5)
Possible and likely futures of urban transportation (1971) (5)
Correspondence: On conceptions of professions (1986) (5)
Progress In Operations Research Vol.i (1961) (5)
About corporate images (1993) (4)
The Democratization of Philosophy (1949) (4)
Ethics and morality—a dialogue (2011) (4)
Open Letter to TIMS Members (1972) (4)
A Systems Approach to the Problems of Solid Waste and Litter (1972) (4)
Operational Research and National Science Policy (2008) (4)
Ackoff's fables: Very short stories with very sharp points — On development (1990) (3)
Automatic Management: A Forecast and its Educational Implications (1955) (3)
A note on the internal market economy (1993) (3)
Some New Statistical Techniques Applicable to Operations Research (1952) (3)
The “total” in Total Quality Management (TQM) (1992) (3)
Management Gurus and Educators (2001) (3)
Revitalizing Western Economies: A New Agenda for Business and Government. (1986) (2)
Letter to the Editor---On Hitch's Dissent on “Operations Research and National Planning” (1958) (2)
Return on human resources (1995) (2)
A Management Scientist Looks at Education and Education Looks Back. (1974) (2)
A useful distinction between managers and leaders (2009) (2)
On pairs and trios: The smallest social systems (1996) (2)
Teaching versus learning (1991) (2)
Levels of corporate development (1988) (2)
My systems Credo (1988) (1)
A definitial note on cooperation, conflict, and competition (1962) (1)
Productivity and learning (1989) (1)
What constitutes leadership and why it can’t be taught (2005) (1)
Designing a Replacement for the UN (2006) (1)
Ackoff's fables: Very short stories with very sharp points: All Mantua is divided into seven parts (1989) (1)
Stafford Beer (1990) (1)
The future is now (1988) (1)
Where do You Intend to Go Now (1986) (1)
Management's Corner (1956) (1)
Scientific Method and Social Science--East and West (1952) (1)
Some thoughts about corporate image (1991) (1)
Operations Research (1970) (1)
The new age (1995) (1)
An Educational Program for the Philosophy of Science (1949) (1)
Some notes on a working visit to South Africa (1992) (1)
Towards an experimental measure of personality. (1947) (1)
Ackoff 's fables: Very short stories with very sharp points—The Shahbanou (1991) (1)
Our Changing Concept of Planning (1982) (1)
A SYSTEMIC VIEW OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP by Russell L. Ackoff (2004) (0)
LONG TITLE: RETHINKING SYSTEMS THINKING: LEARNING AND COEVOLVING WITH THE WORLD SHORT TITLE: Rethinking Systems Thinking (2013) (0)
Projective Methods. Lawrence K. Frank (1949) (0)
Fandamentals Of Operations Research (1960) (0)
Quality of work and work-life as added value (1994) (0)
Opening Commentary: "Organization Development and Change" (2006) (0)
Obituary (2006) (0)
Book Review:Readings in Philosophical Analysis Herbert Feigl, Wilfrid Sellars (1949) (0)
Ackoff's fables—Very short stories with very sharp points (1990) (0)
CONFLICT, COOPERATION, COMPETITION, AND CUPID (2014) (0)
FRANK, PHILIPP. Modern Science and Its Philosophy. Second ed. Pp. 324. Cam bridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1949. $4.50 (1950) (0)
Russell Ackoff Doctoral Student Awards for Research on Human Decision Processes Research Grant Proposal Project Title : Strength and Corrosion in Social Norms : Conditions for Norm Adherence Student (2007) (0)
The Logic of the Sciences and the Humanities. F. S. C. Northrop (1948) (0)
A Revolution in Organizational Concepts (1972) (0)
Groping in the dark: The first decade of global modelling: Donella MEADOWS, John RICHARDSON, and Gerhart BRUCKMANN (Eds.) Wiley, Chichester, 1982, xxiii + 311 pages, £11.00 (1982) (0)
An Addendum to General Heiman's Remarks (1960) (0)
Discussion (1948) (0)
Philosophy as I remember it—Kant (1992) (0)
Russell Ackoff Doctoral Student Fellowship Proposal (2009) Consumer (Ir)rationality and the Coase Conjecture in the PC Video-Game Market (2009) (0)
Book Review:Main Currents of Scientific Thought: A History of the Sciences Stephen S. Mason (1954) (0)
New tools, new thinking. Interview by Joe Flower. (1992) (0)
Theory and Method in the Social Sciences. Arnold M. Rose (1955) (0)
A note on a confederation of professionals (1996) (0)
SYSTEMS THINKING: THE WINNING FORMULA "Best Practices Research - The DNA of Successful Organizations" (2009) (0)
Philosophy as I remember it: Russell (1994) (0)
NotesandInsights Terrorism : A Systemic View (2003) (0)
Philosophy as I remember it: Hegel (1995) (0)
Glossary of Acronyms (1976) (0)
On the ethical use of power and political behavior to lead systemic change (2006) (0)
Book Review:Philosophy for the Future R. W. Sellars, V. J. McGill, M. Farber (1950) (0)
3. The Clark-Volvo Joint Venture (1993) (0)
Philosophy as I remember it: Locke (1992) (0)
Computer obstructed education (1973) (0)
Philosophy as I remember it: Hume (1993) (0)
Mr. Rieser on Architecture (1947) (0)
11. Lineare Programme (1971) (0)
On laws and lawyers (1989) (0)
Flows in Networks (1963) (0)
Philosophy as I remember it: Fichte (1993) (0)
Visual Aids in Biology. (Book Reviews: General Biology; Laboratory Exercises in General Biology) (1948) (0)
Book Review:The Study of Behavior: Q-Technique and Its Methodology William Stephenson (1955) (0)
Philosophy as I remember it: Schopenhauer (1992) (0)
Philosophy as I remember it: Rousseau (1995) (0)
Book Review:Great Tradition in Ethics Ethel M. Albert, Theodore C. Denise, Sheldon P. Peterfreund (1954) (0)
Philosophy as i remember it (1991) (0)
Practical Logic.@@@Logic.@@@Methods of Inquiry. (1952) (0)
Planning for Social Systems (1971) (0)
On Flexibility and Freedom (1989) (0)
Experimental Designs in Social Research . F. Stuart Chapin. New York-London: Harper, 1947. Pp. x + 483. $3.00. (1948) (0)
Ackoff's Fables—Very short stories with very sharp points: Don't call me brother (1990) (0)
Comments on Operations Research (1955) (0)
Ackoff's fables: Very short stories with very sharp points-son of a bitch (1990) (0)
Book Review:Cybernetics (Transactions of the Ninth Conference, March 20-21, 1952) H. Von Foerster (1955) (0)
Towards an Interpretation of Contemporary Philosophy (1946) (0)
Toward a Theory of the Dynamics of Conflict (1966) (0)
On using the literature (1996) (0)
Promoting global development, not just band-aid charity (2006) (0)
Cybernetics. Norbert Wiener (1949) (0)
Lenin as Philosopher. Anton Pannekoek (1948) (0)
Preferable alternatives to downsizing (1995) (0)
Philosophy as I remember it: Bergson (1994) (0)
Message from IFORS President Dominique de Werra (2010) (0)
The Scientific Attitude. C. H. Waddington (1949) (0)
Philosophy as I remember it: Voltaire (1992) (0)
Philosophy as I remember it: Leibnitz (1994) (0)

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