CONFUCIANISM IN ACTION - RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ORIENTAL SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY

This paper aims at summarising recent developments in Oriental systems methodologies, presenting outstanding features in these developments, and probing what has been conditioning and shaping the developments a nd features. The main message of the paper is that the Confucian cultu ral tradition has made its imprint deeply onto the recent Oriental sys tems methodologies. It is then suggested that in order properly to tac kle the recent multi-sphere transformation in the post-Confucian socie ties, a conscious investigation of, and a critical attitude towards, t he penetrating and profound influence of cultural tradition(s) is indi spensable. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.