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Books by John Mingers

Research paper thumbnail of Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy: A Confluence of Ideas

Philosophy and Systems Thinking seeks to re-address the whole question of philosophy and systems ... more Philosophy and Systems Thinking seeks to re-address the whole question of philosophy and systems thinking for the twenty first century and provide a new work that would be of value to both systems and philosophy. This is a highly opportune time when different fields – critical realism, philosophy of science and systems thinking – are all developing around the same set of concepts and yet not realizing it. There is much of importance to be discussed and this book will prove accessible and valuable to both the systems thinking and philosophy communities.

Research paper thumbnail of Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems

Research paper thumbnail of Realizing Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science,

Research paper thumbnail of Rational Analysis for a Problematic World Revisited.

Research paper thumbnail of Multimethodology: Theory and Practice of Combining Management Science Methodologies,

Research paper thumbnail of Information Systems: an Emerging Discipline?

Research paper thumbnail of Self-Producing Systems: The Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis

Papers by John Mingers

Research paper thumbnail of Theories of Information—The Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects

Technology, work and globalization, Dec 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Enacting Semiotics Research—A 12-Step Process

Technology, work and globalization, Dec 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Applying the Integrative Semiotic Framework

Technology, work and globalization, Dec 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Developing an Integrative Semiotic Framework

Technology, work and globalization, Dec 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of A Review of Theories of Information Across Disciplines

Technology, work and globalization, Dec 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Great Quantitative/Qualitative Debate: The Past, Present, and Future of Positivism and Post-Positivism in Information Systems

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring the dynamics of journal citations: Modelling with s-curves

Journal of the Operational Research Society, Aug 1, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Realising Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science

Research paper thumbnail of Towards a Methodology for Semiotics Research

Technology, Work and Globalization

Research paper thumbnail of The Great Quantitative/Qualitative Debate: The Past, Present, and Future of Positivism and Post-Positivism in Information Systems

Information Systems Research, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of An Overview of Related Methods: VSM, System Dynamics and Decision Analysis

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring the dynamics of journal citations: Modelling with s-curves

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction to the Special Issue: Teaching Soft O.R., Problem Structuring Methods, and Multimethodology

INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy: A Confluence of Ideas

Philosophy and Systems Thinking seeks to re-address the whole question of philosophy and systems ... more Philosophy and Systems Thinking seeks to re-address the whole question of philosophy and systems thinking for the twenty first century and provide a new work that would be of value to both systems and philosophy. This is a highly opportune time when different fields – critical realism, philosophy of science and systems thinking – are all developing around the same set of concepts and yet not realizing it. There is much of importance to be discussed and this book will prove accessible and valuable to both the systems thinking and philosophy communities.

Research paper thumbnail of Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems

Research paper thumbnail of Realizing Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science,

Research paper thumbnail of Rational Analysis for a Problematic World Revisited.

Research paper thumbnail of Multimethodology: Theory and Practice of Combining Management Science Methodologies,

Research paper thumbnail of Information Systems: an Emerging Discipline?

Research paper thumbnail of Self-Producing Systems: The Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis

Research paper thumbnail of Theories of Information—The Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects

Technology, work and globalization, Dec 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Enacting Semiotics Research—A 12-Step Process

Technology, work and globalization, Dec 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Applying the Integrative Semiotic Framework

Technology, work and globalization, Dec 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Developing an Integrative Semiotic Framework

Technology, work and globalization, Dec 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of A Review of Theories of Information Across Disciplines

Technology, work and globalization, Dec 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The Great Quantitative/Qualitative Debate: The Past, Present, and Future of Positivism and Post-Positivism in Information Systems

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring the dynamics of journal citations: Modelling with s-curves

Journal of the Operational Research Society, Aug 1, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Realising Systems Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science

Research paper thumbnail of Towards a Methodology for Semiotics Research

Technology, Work and Globalization

Research paper thumbnail of The Great Quantitative/Qualitative Debate: The Past, Present, and Future of Positivism and Post-Positivism in Information Systems

Information Systems Research, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of An Overview of Related Methods: VSM, System Dynamics and Decision Analysis

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring the dynamics of journal citations: Modelling with s-curves

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction to the Special Issue: Teaching Soft O.R., Problem Structuring Methods, and Multimethodology

INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Estimating Business and Management journal quality from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise in the UK

Information Processing & Management, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Rational analysis for a problematic world

European Journal of Operational Research, 1990

The strategic choke approach Institute of Human Relations, with some overlap in lhe membership of... more The strategic choke approach Institute of Human Relations, with some overlap in lhe membership of lhe respective project teams. The insights obtained in the course of these two seminal projects were to provide foundations for the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Mapping MBA Programme: An Alternative Analysis

Research paper thumbnail of A Theory of Information as Objective and Veridical

Technology, work and globalization, Dec 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of An integrative semiotic methodology for IS research

Information and Organization, Mar 1, 2017

Semiotics studies the production, transmission and interpretation of meaning represented symbolic... more Semiotics studies the production, transmission and interpretation of meaning represented symbolically in signs and messages primarily, but not exclusively, in language. For information systems (IS) the domain of semiosis consists of human and non-human interactions based on technologically-mediated communication in the social, material and personal worlds. The paper argues that semiosis has immense bearing on processes of communication central to the advanced information and communications technologies studied by IS scholars. Its use separately, or in mixed methods approaches, enriches areas of central concern to the IS field, and is particularly apt when researching internet-based development and applications, for example virtual worlds and social media. This paper provides a four step structured methodology, informed by a central theoretical semiotic framework to provide practical guidelines for operationalizing semiotics in IS research. Thus, using illustrative examples, the paper provides a step-bystep semiotics approach to research based on distinctive semiotic concepts and their relationshipsproducer, consumer, medium, code, message and content-and how, at an integrating level, the personal, social and material worlds relate through sociation, embodiment and sociomateriality.

Research paper thumbnail of Measuring the Impact of Knowledge - A Comparison of Web of Science and Google Scholar

Assessing the quality of the knowledge produced by management academics is increasing being metri... more Assessing the quality of the knowledge produced by management academics is increasing being metricated. Moreover, emphasis is being placed on the impact of the research rather than simply where it is published. The main metric for impact is the number of citations a paper receives. Traditionally this data has come from the ISI Web of Science but research has shown that this has poor coverage in the social sciences. A newer and different source for citations is Google Scholar. In this paper we compare the two on a dataset of over 1200 publications from a UK Business School. The results show that Web of Science is indeed poor in the area of management and that Google Scholar, whilst somewhat unreliable, has a much better coverage.

Research paper thumbnail of Reinterpreting the Kuhnian Paradigm in Information Systems

Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2018

The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users ar... more The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.