Contributions of the "Active Colleagues"
CONTRIBUTOR |
NATURE OF CONTRIBUTION |
Henry Alberts |
Pioneering applications to the redesign of the U. S. Defense Acquisition System, and to the legislation that effected the redesign |
R. F. Bales |
Developing the concept of role distinctions and the observational classification of behavior in group settings |
I. M. Bochenski |
Publishing a scholarly overview of the history of formal logic |
Benjamin Broome |
Teaching Interactive Management (IM), training IM staff, conducting IM Workshops in many settings, and pursuing scholarly study of group work |
Roxana Cárdenas |
Co-authoring a textbook on IM, pioneering the application of IM in Mexico, teaching IM to faculty and staff in Mexico, and collaborating in offering short courses on the science of generic design and the application of IM |
Alexander Christakis |
Collaborating in the development of IM, pioneering its application in a variety of arenas, co-authoring work on dimensionality, and contributing to the proper use of language |
Raymond Fitz |
Leading the first computer-assisted application of Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM), and pioneering its application to renovation of the African Sahel |
Frank Harary |
Publishing a scholarly work on structural modeling |
B. L. T. Hedberg and his co-authors |
Publishing a scholarly work on organizational change |
F. Ross Janes |
Pioneering the introduction, teaching, and application of IM in the United Kingdom |
I. W. Janis |
Publishing a scholarly work on dysfunctional group behavior |
I. Kapelouzos |
Publishing a scholarly work assessing the before-and-after aspects of the application of IM |
J. L. LeMoigne |
Clarifying the history of engineering education in France and the U. S. A., including the fateful choice of Auguste Comte as a model instead of Da Vinci |
David Mackett |
Pioneering the application of IM to problems of fishery-related industries and research |
Robert McDonald |
Pioneering the application of IM to forestry and to education |
George A. Miller |
Clarifying intellectual limitations caused by limited memory capability |
Scott M. Staley |
Pioneering the application and successful installation of IM in Ford Motor Company |
B. W. Tuckman |
Clarifying the major sequential aspects of ordinary group work |
Robert J. Waller |
Pioneering the application of IM, leading the first (non-computer-assisted) workshop on urban projects, and applying it to a variety of applications; and publishing enhancements to the theory |
Rosamond Warfield |
Helping in many areas, to free up John Warfield to carry on this work in the absence of adequate institutional support |
James T. C. Wright |
Pioneering the application of IM in Brazil to a variety of significant national and urban issues |
Names of direct collaborators are highlighted. Other names are those of "colleagues-at-a-distance", i.e., persons whose ideas contributed directly to the framing of Interactive Management. All persons listed are believed to be living at the time of this writing.