Systemic inactivism: A modern form of laissez-faire thinking

Wladimir Sachs, George Calhoun

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Abstract

Organizational managers frequently need to find ways of legitimizing inactivity or resistance to change. Traditional anti-change ideologies (e.g., laissez-faire) no longer serve as effective legitimizers. The systems approach can be easily adapted to this purpose by distorting and reinterpreting the basic principles of systems thinking. This reinterpretation, which we refer to as systemic inactivism, is analyzed in detail in this paper.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)191-198
Number of pages8
JournalHuman Systems Management
Volume2
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1981

Keywords

  • Dynamic conservatism
  • Inactivism
  • Laissez-faire
  • Systems approach
  • Systems planning

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