Stafford Beer

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Anthony Stafford Beer (born September 25, 1926 in London , † August 23, 2002 in Toronto ) was a British business economist. He is considered the founder of management cybernetics and was a professor at several universities.

Life

Beer studied philosophy and psychology at the University of London in 1943 and 1944 . He carried out practice-oriented operations research from a holistic approach, including knowledge such as B. bio-cybernetics and neural networks .

At the time of the government of Salvador Allende , from 1971 he was involved in the Cybersyn project in Chile together with Fernando Flores , which wanted to establish a Chilean economic management system with scientific administrative and organizational techniques.

Stafford Beer defined cybernetics in his book Cybernetics and Management as "the science of effective organization".

In the German-speaking area, representatives of the St. Gallen University ( Hans Ulrich , Fredmund Malik , Markus Schwaninger , etc.) have taken his work as the basis for the St. Gallen management model .

Awards and honors

Works

  • How many grapes went into the wine: Stafford Beer on the art and science of holistic management , edited by Roger Harnden and Allenna Leonard, Chichester; New York: Wiley, 1994.
  • Beyond dispute. The Invention of Team Syntegrity
  • Diagnosing the System for Organizations , Chichester [West Sussex]; New York: Wiley, 1985
  • The Heart of Enterprise , Chichester [Eng.]; New York: Wiley, 1979
  • Platform for change , London, New York, Wiley 1975
  • Designing freedom , London; New York: J. Wiley, c1974
  • Brain of the firm; a development in management cybernetics , New York, Herder and Herder 1972
  • Decision and control; the meaning of operational research and management cybernetics , London, New York, Wiley, 1966.
  • Management Science. The Business Use of Operations Research
  • Cybernetics and Management , 1959, German Cybernetics and Management , 3rd exp. Ed., Frankfurt a. M .: S. Fischer, 1967

See also

literature

  • Martin Adam: Viability of Social Systems: A Comparison of the Stafford Beer's Viable System Model . VIII, St. Gallen, dissertation, 2000.
  • Raul Espejo, Markus Schwaninger (Ed.): To be and not to be, that is the system. A tribute to Stafford Beer . (Electronic Resource). Carl Auer Systems, Heidelberg 1997, CD-ROM.

Web links

Commons : Stafford Beer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philippe Rivere: The state as a machine, in: Le Monde diplomatique November 2010, p. 19
  2. ^ Frederick W. Lanchester Prize. (No longer available online.) Informs.org ( Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences ), archived from the original on October 2, 2015 ; accessed on February 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.informs.org
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Stafford
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beer, Anthony Stafford
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British business economist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 2002
Place of death Toronto