Dr Bob Cavana
Adjunct Professor
School of Management
Introduction
Prof Bob Cavana is an Adjunct Professor with the School of Management, Wellington School of Business and Government, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Retired as a Reader in 2020, he was a researcher, educator and practitioner in the Systems & Management Sciences and contributed to the development of several systems thinking, decision science and research methods courses and programmes within the School of Management. Prior to joining VUW in 1989, Bob was the Corporate Economist with the NZ Railways Corporation and, previously, a Senior Economist with the NZ Forest Service. He is a past President of the Operational Research Society of New Zealand, a past President (Economics Chapter) and Vice-President of the International System Dynamics Society, and a former Managing Editor of System Dynamics Review. Bob received the Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies Honorary Award as “Distinguished Scientist in the Scientific area of Systems Approach” in 2009 and he was elected a Fellow of Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) in 2012.
Qualifications
- PhD, Management Science (System Dynamics), University of Bradford, UK.
- BCom & MCom (Economics), University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Selected publications
Cavana RY, Dangerfield BC, Pavlov OV, Radzicki MJ, Wheat ID. (eds) (2021). Feedback Economics: Economic Modeling with System Dynamics. Springer Nature, Switzerland AG 2021.
Bosch O, Cavana RY (eds). (2018). Systems Education for a Sustainable Planet. Systems. (Special Issue Book). MDPI. http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/596
Cavana RY, Hutchinson WE (eds) (2007). Special Issue on Australia and New Zealand Systems (ANZSYS). Systems Research & Behavioural Science, 24(2).
Maani KE, Cavana RY. (2007). Systems Thinking, System Dynamics: Managing Change and Complexity. (2nd ed). Pearson Education NZ (Prentice Hall): Auckland.
Ford A, Cavana RY (eds). (2004). Special Issue on Environmental and Resource Systems. System Dynamics Review, 20(2).
Cavana RY, Delahaye BL, Sekaran U. (2001). Applied Business Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods. Wiley: Brisbane. [Chinese translation, 2004, Wiley & Yeh Yeh Book Gallery: Taiwan]
Cavana RY, Maani KE. (2000). A methodological framework for linking systems thinking and system dynamics. Proceedings of the 18th International System Dynamics Conference, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 7-10 August.
Maani KE, Cavana RY. (2000). Systems Thinking and Modelling: Understanding Change and Complexity. Pearson Education NZ (Prentice Hall): Auckland.
Cavana RY, Vennix JAM, Rouwette EAJA, Stevenson-Wright M, Candlish J (eds). (1999). Systems Thinking for the Next Millennium. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society and the 5th Australian & New Zealand Systems Conference. Held in Wellington, New Zealand, 20-23 July. System Dynamics Society, Albany, USA.