To appreciate, understand, and tackle chronic global social and environmental problems, greater appreciation of the importance of higher order thinking is required. Such thinking includes personal epistemological beliefs (PEBs), i.e., the beliefs people hold about the nature of knowledge and how something is known. These beliefs have profound implications for the way individuals relate to each ...

Introduction The following document explores some critical points connected with the possible adoption of ecosystem models for industrial production. It is necessitated by the desire to underscore some fundamental questions possibly arised by policies trying to introduce or implementing forms of systemic interaction for firms. Such questions are essentially directed to a better knowledge about ...

Many small businesses suffer from inadequate management skills which can lead to poor business performance and unsustainable businesses. Research to date has focused on traditional skills such as communication, time management and people skills, yet critically many business managers have no systems thinking skills. This paper presents a framework targeted at delivering systems thinking skills t...