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Summary of Main Results, Contributions, and Outlook

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Systems Engineering, Systems Thinking, and Learning

Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems ((UCS))

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How does systems thinking evolve in practice?

To answer this first part of the main research question, data from four cases in space industry have been collected and analysed with an analytical framework based on activity theory. Seven major contradictions identified in the activitytheoretical analysis motivated the selection of eleven themes from this comprehensive data set of multiple sources and varying granularity analysed in the following theme-and-key-event analysis.

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Moser, H.A. (2014). Summary of Main Results, Contributions, and Outlook. In: Systems Engineering, Systems Thinking, and Learning. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03895-7_9

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