ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on research process from the viewpoint of sociocybernetics. It discusses praxiological decision making and describes research process that involves the learning cycle and praxiological decision making relevant to it. Research process may be considered a general form of human activity devoted to knowing, understanding, and amelioration. The sociocybernetic view describes communication links among persons comprising the human activity system—a system of researchers and participants engaged in human inquiry. Since its formulation and introduction, cybernetics continues to provide a meaningful perspective and set of theoretical constructs to study and describe a wide range of human phenomena. There is an important linkage of research process to management science and related fields of study and research in human organizations. It entails various representations of the learning cycle. The D. Kolb learning cycle is a feedforward loop parallel to that of the general research cycle.
