Complexity and management : fad or radical challenge to systems thinking? / Ralph D. Stacey, Douglas...
Complexity and management : fad or radical challenge to systems thinking? / Ralph D. Stacey, Douglas...
Complexity and management : fad or radical challenge to systems thinking? / Ralph D. Stacey, Douglas Griffin and Patricia Shaw.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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English
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1 online resource (241 p.)
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computer
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series preface; Introduction: getting things done in organizations; ~Getting things done, anyway~; Ways of thinking; Outline of the book; The age-old question of stability and change; The claims of management complexity writers; Moving toward a knowable future; Human fre...
Limits of systems thinking: focusing on knowable futuresDealing with human participation and freedom; Scientific management: ignoring interaction; Systems thinking: splitting choice and interaction; Conclusion; How the complexity sciences deal with the future; Chaos theory: unfolding an enfolded fut...
Complexity and the dynamics of industries: limits to control and the origins of noveltyMarion's analysis of causality in complex systems; Complexity and the dynamics of organizations: sustaining the illusion of control; Conclusion; Complexity and human action; Human action in the dominant management...
Key elements of our projectThe books in this series; Appendix 1: The origins of Western notions of causality; Appendix 2: Complexity sciences as sources of analogy; Appendix 3: The movement of our thought; Bibliography; Index
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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England
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2000.
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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:introduces the variety of views p...
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Complexity and management : fad or radical challenge to systems thinking? / Ralph D. Stacey, Douglas Griffin and Patricia Shaw.
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Complexity and emergence in organizations Complexity and management
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [214]-220) and index.
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74VKVkmv6JoX
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0-203-19015-7
0-203-18468-8
1-280-35461-5
1-134-53897-9
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302.35 658.4
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991024180002702626
