Biography john van gigch pdf

John Peter van Gigch (1930 – August 29, 2006 in Sebastopol, California) was an American organizational theorist and Professor Emeritus in System Management at the California State University.^[1]

Life and work

Born in Argentina in 1930, Van Gigch transferred in the 1960s from a university to the States.^[2] In 1968 he received a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State University for his dissertation The Impact of Technology on the Mental Content of Work in Industrial Operations.

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In 1968 he started working at California State University at the School of Business and Public Administration. In the 1970s he became Professor Operations/Strategic Management, and head of the Department of Management, College of Business at the California State University. In 1993 he retired from the business school faculty.^[2] Until his death he remained an active member of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, where he EI ENFOQUE DE SISTEMAS: TEORÍA GENERAL DE SISTEMAS APLICADA MISOM