Complexity and Management: Fad Or Radical Challenge to Systems Thinking?Complexity theory is generating increasing interest amongst strategic thinkers. This fascinating book covers issues such as predictability, creativity and relationships as it considers how complexity, and its central principles of emergence and self-organization, are being used to understand organizations. The book:
Timely and controversial, Complexity and Management is essential reading for anyone interested in strategy, systems thinking, organization and management theory, and organizational change. |
Contents
The ageold question of stability and change | 12 |
Moving toward an unknowable future | 30 |
focusing on knowable futures | 56 |
How the complexity sciences deal with the future | 85 |
Complexity and the emergence of novelty | 106 |
Differing views on complexity in organizations | 127 |
Complexity and human action | 157 |
from systems | 183 |
The origins of Western notions of causality | 195 |
The movement of our thought | 207 |
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Complexity and Management: Fad Or Radical Challenge to Systems Thinking? Ralph D. Stacey,Douglas Griffin,Patricia Shaw No preview available - 2000 |
Complexity and Management: Fad Or Radical Challenge to Systems Thinking? Ralph D. Stacey,Douglas Griffin,Patricia Shaw No preview available - 2000 |
Common terms and phrases
Adaptionist Teleology agents applied argued arises causal framework chaos theory Chapter choose cognitivist complex adaptive systems Complex Responsive Processes complexity sciences complexity theory conflicting constraints creative cybernetic dissipative structures dominant discourse dominant management discourse edge of chaos entities evolution evolutionary example explain fitness landscape formative causality formative cause Formative Teleology future goals Hegel human action human freedom human interaction human organizations identity important individual internal dynamic Kant Kant's Kauffman kind management complexity writers Marion means memes mental model metaphor micro interactions move movement Natural Law Teleology natural sciences natural selection notion novelty organizational paradox patterns of behavior perpetual construction perspective phenomenon potential predictability Prigogine Rationalist Teleology relating relationship secular Natural Law self-organization simple rules social split strange attractor strategies survival systems dynamics systems theories systems thinking talk theory of causality thinking about organizations thought Transformative Teleology understanding unfolding unknown variations whole