Robert Cavana
From Pearsons:
Robert Y. Cavana (PhD, Bradford) is a Reader in Systems & Logistics with the Victoria Management School at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has nearly 30 years of professional experience working with public and private sector organisations, where he has been involved in systems thinking and system dynamics projects spanning many sectors of the New Zealand economy. He was previously a President of the Operational Research Society of New Zealand and a Vice President of the International System Dynamics Society; and he is currently a Managing Editor of System Dynamics Review. He has a wide range of international publications, and he is also a co-author of Applied Business Research: Qualitative & Quantitative Methods (Wiley, Brisbane, 2001; Chinese edition 2004).
From the University of Wellington, New Zealand http://www.victoria.ac.nz/vms/staff/bob-cavana.aspx:
Dr Bob Cavana is an Associate Professor in System Sciences at VMS, and co-author of Systems Thinking and Modelling: Understanding Change and Complexity (Pearson Education, Auckland, 2000) and Applied Business Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods (Wiley, Brisbane, 2001; Chinese edition 2004).
Previously he was Corporate Economist with NZ Railways Corporation and has consulted to various NZ organisations on economic, strategic, systems and business research projects. He is a previous President of the NZ Operational Research Society, currently a Vice-President for the International System Dynamics Society and on a number of editorial boards, including System Dynamics Review.
Resources
Robert Cavana is the author of:
Chosen at random from all the resources listed:
- Modelling for Learning Organisations by John D. Sterman, John Morecroft
- Systems Engineering by Andrew P. Sage
- Systems Thinking, Systems Practice by Peter B. Checkland
- Human Factors in Systems Engineering by Alphonse Chapanis
- Systems Thinking in the Public Sector: The Failure of the Reform Regime…. by John Seddon