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Two methodologies?

Peter Checkland and Mao Tsetung have more in common than first meets the eye

Pages 3-8 | Published online: 14 Aug 2019

For the interested reader

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  • Checkland, P.B. (1981): Systems Thinking, Systems Practice (Wiley).
  • Lenin (1916) Philosophical Notebooks, LCW, quoted in Corrigan, P. et al. (1979): For Mao (Macmillan).
  • Mao Tsetung (1963a): Speech at the Hangzhou Conference (May–June), JPRS 61259–2 (20th February 1974).
  • Mao Tsetung (1963b): Draft Resolution of the Central Committee of the CCP on Some Problems in the Current Rural Work (Renmin Press, Beijing).
  • Mao Tsetung (1958a): Second Speech at the Second Session of the Eighth National Party Congress, JPRS 61269–1 (20th February 1974).
  • Mao Tsetung (1958b): Speech at the First Zhengzhou Conference (November), Selected Works of Mao Tsetung (1969), pp. 247–251, JPRS 61259–1.
  • Mao Tsetung (1937a): “On contradiction”, Selected Works of Mao Tsetung (Lawrence & Wishart, 1954).
  • Mao Tsetung (1937b): “On practice”, Selected Works of Mao Tsetung (Lawrence & Wishart, 1954).
  • Mao Tsetung (1936): “Problems of strategy in China's revolutionary war”, Selected Works of Mao Tsetung (Lawrence & Wishart, 1954).
  • Mao Tsetung (1930): Oppose Book Worship, SR40, quoted in Starr, F.B., Continuing the Revolution (Princeton University Press).
  • Mingers, J.C. (1980): “Towards an appropriate social theory for applied systems thinking: Critical theory and soft systems methodology”, J. Applied Systems Analysis Vol. 7.
  • Tomlinson, R. (1990): “Of tools, methods and methodology”, in Tackling Strategic Problems (Ed. Eden, C. and Radford, J.).
  • Vickers, G. (1974): Letter to the author, in Checkland, P.B. (1981): Systems Thinking, Systems Practice (Wiley).

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