Beyond methodology choice: critical systems thinking as critically systemic discourse

By Werner Ulrich. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2003

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Critical systems heuristics (2010, background): “Developing competence in boundary critique thus goes hand in hand with a methodological stance of ‘deep’ methodological complementarism ( Ulrich 2003, p. 337f): while the problem situations we face as professionals change and may require different methodologies, the argumentation tasks we face rema”
Equity, Power Games, and Legitimacy: Dilemmas of Participatory Natural Resource Management (2013, background): “Although these two perspectives are sometimes seen as antagonistic (Faysse 2006), several authors highlight their complementarities (Jackson 2000, Leeuwis 2000, Ulrich 2003, van Paassen et al. 2011).”
Companion Modelling: A Participatory Approach to Support Sustainable Development (2010, background): “The 1990s saw the emergence of a third branch of systemic approaches, namely that of ‘critical systems’, in response to the limitations of soft system approaches to managing conflicting and coercive situations in contexts of significant power asymmetries (Jackson 2000; Ulrich 2003).”