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The Research Papers of Lane Tracy

Lane Tracy did extensive research into Living Systems Theory. His personal website used to contain many free papers on the subject, but unfortunately, I can find neither the website nor any of the papers anymore. This will be an attempt to digitize them and explore some of their contents.

Table of Contents (Sorted Alphabetically)

• Adding Chaos to Living Systems Theory
• A Need-Goal-Path Model of Motivation in Organizations
• Basic Human Needs: A Living Systems Perspective
• Changing Organizational Boundaries
• Choosing Negotiation Strategy According to Purpose: A Living Systems Analysis
• Cohesiveness in Living Systems
• Conflict and Cooperation in Exchange between Living Systems
• Conflict and Divided Loyalty in the Decider Subsystem
• Developing a Map of Purposeful Behavior
• Dysfunctional Social Systems: The Case of Aid to Refugees in Africa
• Dysfunctional Social Systems: The Case of Health Care Insurance in the U.S.
• Evolutionary Processes in Living Systems
• How to Kill a Living System
• Immunity Subsystems: Design for Organizational Defense
• Internal Security and the Boundary Subsystem
• International Peace or Conflict Management?
• Is Gaia a Living System?
• Justice for All Living Systems
• Labor Relations From a Living Systems Perspective
• Lack of Leadership: A Living Systems Perspective
• Living Systems and the Law
• Living Systems Theory Applied to Organizational Behavior
• Molecular Living Systems Theory
• Motivation = Life
• Motivational Interaction Between Living Systems
• Negotiation Between Living Systems
• Negotiation for Unification Process Between North and South in Korea: Living Systems Approach
• On the Desirability of Worker Stress
• Problems of Constancy and Change in Needs
• Storage Capacity in Living Systems
• Technology and the Evolution of Living Systems
• Template Dispersal in Living Systems
• Ten Ways to Use Living Systems Theory
• The Motivation Complex: Linking Needs, Decision Making, Communication, Resources, Power, and Influence