Research Article

How the System Dynamics Society came to be: a collective memoir

  1. David Andersen1,
  2. John Morecroft2,
  3. Roberta Spencer1,
  4. Jay Forrester,
  5. Michel Karsky,
  6. Bernard Paulré,
  7. Jack Pugh,
  8. Michael Radzicki,
  9. Jørgen Randers,
  10. George Richardson,
  11. Khalid Saeed,
  12. Eric Wolstenholme

Article first published online: 30 OCT 2007

DOI: 10.1002/sdr.367

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System Dynamics Review

System Dynamics Review

Special Issue: Exploring the Next Great Frontier: System Dynamics at 50 Guest Editor: John D. Sterman

Volume 23, Issue 2-3, pages 219–227, Summer - Autumn (Fall) 2007

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Andersen, D., Morecroft, J., Spencer, R., Forrester, J., Karsky, M., Paulré, B., Pugh, J., Radzicki, M., Randers, J., Richardson, G., Saeed, K. and Wolstenholme, E. (2007), How the System Dynamics Society came to be: a collective memoir. System Dynamics Review, 23: 219–227. doi: 10.1002/sdr.367

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  1. 1

    Department of Public Administration, University of Albany, Albany, NY 12222, U.S.A.

  2. 2

    Department of Management Science and Operations, London Business School, London NW1 4SA, U.K.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 30 OCT 2007
  2. Article first published online: 30 OCT 2007
  3. Manuscript Accepted:

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Abstract

In this paper several of the early workers in the field of system dynamics tell some of the history of the Society itself. Several slightly different versions of this story have been told over the past several years and we thought it would be interesting to involve a broader group in this kind of modified oral history project. The paper is based on a series of separate written recollections that have been posted in full on the web at http://www.systemdynamics.org/history/oral_history.htm. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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