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Subject:

Second call for papers - deadline extended - CMS3 Lancaster

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"W.J.Gregory" <[log in to unmask]>

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W.J.Gregory

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Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:03:40 +0100

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CMS3 conference, Lancaster, 7th - 9th July 2003



This a second call for papers, with an extended deadline for abstracts.

New due date: 15th November 2002.



Conference theme is "Critique and Inclusivity: Opening the Agenda"

Conference web-site: http://www.cms3.org



Stream: OR/Systems Thinking for Social Improvement



Critical systems thinking is a holistic approach to problem solving and

as such strives for comprehensiveness in analysis and application 

whilst recognising that complete comprehensiveness is impossible. As 

critical systems practitioners, we recognise that we take decisions 

based on value judgements and limited understandings. These include 

judgements about who to include in our analyses, how to conduct our 

investigations, how to critique our conclusions, where to "bound" our 

thinking, when to act, and so on. By recognising the inevitable 

incomprehensiveness of everything we do, and by designing methods that 

help us to be more reflective about values, boundaries and 

interconnections, we believe that we can improve the ways in which we 

engage with others.



Other forms of management problem solving can be understood to have a 

less engaged stance. Operational research, for example, has an 

action-orientation that for many would be taken as representing a 

disengaged, and distanced approach to problem-solving. Its mode of 

'engagement' has traditionally been with the objects of the problem, 

rather than the subjects. The relationship between OR and systems 

thinking has been explored over many years, and we shall illustrate 

ways in which OR can be enhanced through a more engaged and reflective 

practice which takes on board learning from other fields. While there 

is both a 'systems community' and an 'OR community', each with its own 

journals and conferences, it is nevertheless the case that many of the 

best-known practitioners have had a foot in both camps (e.g., 

Churchman, Forrester, Hall, Checkland, Ackoff and Jackson to name but a

few). Arguably, these practitioners have married the concern with 

comprehensiveness from systems thinking with the action-orientation of 

OR to create a set of ideas that are increasingly being seen as 

essential if we are to begin to tackle the complex social and 

ecological problems of the 21st Century.



This stream will give people a chance to explore how they can work 

together to enhance systemic practice for the future. Systems thinkers 

from all over the world have been active in developing critical and 

systemic intervention for social and ecological improvement. It seems 

to us that we are experiencing an international resurgence of interest 

in systems thinking, and attention is also being turned in countries 

all over the world to the question of how to address both global and 

local issues of environmental degradation, social exclusion, poverty, 

inequality and community fragmentation. It is therefore vitally 

important that we share our insights and build a community of 

practitioners that can take the research agenda forward. Our aim is 

therefore to bring together as many people as possible who are engaging

with these themes, with the intention of promoting an intense and 

lively debate with real implications for systems and OR practice in the

service of social improvement. Presentations will span a wide range of 

systems ideas, from philosophy and theory through to methodology, 

methods and their application in interventions. Systemic practice in a 

wide variety of domains is likely to be covered: rural regeneration, 

health service management, environmental planning, software 

development, knowledge management, disaster planning, information 

systems planning, defence strategy, community development, 

organisational strategic management, safety planning, and human capital

accounting.



As we enter the 21st Century, it is arguably the case that there is 

more need for systems thinking than ever before-we are living in a 

truly interconnected world. Therefore, we look forward to an exciting 

exchange of ideas in this stream with real implications for social and 

ecological improvement in the years to come.





 

Formatting requirements



Formatting requirements for extended abstracts which are to be included

on the web and in the bound proceedings for participants.



·	Maximum length 1500 words

·	Title

·	Authors (affiliation, contact details)

·	Body of Text

·	References





Formatting requirements for final papers to be included in Conference 

Proceedings (CD). The language of the conference and for all 

submissions is English.  Submissions must be prepared in Word (version 

97 or higher) or RTF. All authors are required to provide the following

information on the first page:



·	Title of the submission 

·	Stream of submission

·	Contact information for the first author, including name, 

organisational affiliation, e-mail address, mailing address, phone 

number, and fax number. 

·	Contact information for all authors, including names, 

organisational affiliations, and e-mail addresses 



The remaining pages should include the main body of the submission and 

all references, tables, figures, etc. Papers are restricted to 7000 

words, including all figures, tables, and references (but not including

the title page). They should be no more than 25 pages in length. All 

papers must be single-spaced, prepared using at least an 11-point Ariel

font, and be formatted for A4 paper (21cm * 29.7 cm). 



Note:  These length and formatting guidelines need to be strictly 

enforced due to time and space constraints.  



Papers, which do not meet these guidelines, will not be included in the

proceedings.  



Papers arriving after 13th of May 2003 will not be included in the 

proceedings.



 

Stream Convenors:



Dr Wendy Gregory 

Centre for Systems Studies,

Business School,

University of Hull,

Hull,

HU6 7RX

Britain

e-mail: [log in to unmask]

Phone:  01482-465960

Fax:       01482-466637

 

Dr Gabriele Bammer 

Fulbright New Century Scholar and

Senior Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health,

The Australian National University.



Sid Luckett

Director of Academic Programmes

Centre for Rural Development Systems, 

University of Natal,

South Africa.



Dr Alejandro Ochoa-Arias

Centro de Investigaciones en Sistemología Interpretativa. 

Universidad de Los Andes. 

Mérida. 

Venezuela.



Ian Roderick

New Academy of Business,

Bristol, UK



Dr Roman Vega-Romero

Posgrados de Administración en Salud y Seguridad Social

Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas

Universidad Javeriana

Bogotá-Colombia



 

Important dates



Please ensure that all copy is sent electronically to:



Dr Wendy Gregory



E-mail: [log in to unmask]



by the following dates:



Abstracts				15th November 2002 

Decisions on abstracts		        10th January 2003 

Full papers required by			13th May 2003



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