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Complexity and management : fad or radical challenge to systems thinking? / / Ralph D. Stacey, Douglas Griffin and Patricia Shaw
| Complexity and management : fad or radical challenge to systems thinking? / / Ralph D. Stacey, Douglas Griffin and Patricia Shaw |
| Autore | Stacey Ralph D. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina |
302.35
658.4 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GriffinDouglas <1946->
ShawPatricia <1953-> |
| Collana | Complexity and emergence in organizations Complexity and management |
| Soggetto topico |
Complex organizations
Complexity (Philosophy) Industrial management Interorganizational relations Organizational change Organizational effectiveness System analysis Organizational effectiveness - Management Management Business & Economics Management Styles & Communication |
| ISBN |
0-203-18468-8
1-280-35461-5 1-134-53897-9 0-203-19015-7 |
| Classificazione | 85.08 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 freedom and the scientific method; The importance of Kant's contribution; Conclusion; Moving toward an unknowable future; Chance and adaptation; Alternatives to some of Darwin's views; Darwin and the neo-Darwinian synthesis; Five ways of understanding stability and change; Conclusion
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 future; Chaos theory as Formative Teleology; Dissipative structure theory: constructing an unknowable future; Conclusion; Complexity and the emergence of novelty; Review of the management complexity writers' claim; Conclusion: the challenge; Differing views on complexity in organizations 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 discourse: focusing on the individual; Human action in complexity: retaining the individual focus; Transformation and human action: focusing on relationship and participation; Conclusion; Getting things done in organizations: from systems to complex responsive processes 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996262842603316 |
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Complexity and management : fad or radical challenge to systems thinking? / / Ralph D. Stacey, Douglas Griffin and Patricia Shaw
| Complexity and management : fad or radical challenge to systems thinking? / / Ralph D. Stacey, Douglas Griffin and Patricia Shaw |
| Autore | Stacey Ralph D. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina |
302.35
658.4 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GriffinDouglas <1946->
ShawPatricia <1953-> |
| Collana | Complexity and emergence in organizations Complexity and management |
| Soggetto topico |
Complex organizations
Complexity (Philosophy) Industrial management Interorganizational relations Organizational change Organizational effectiveness System analysis Organizational effectiveness - Management Management Business & Economics Management Styles & Communication |
| ISBN |
0-203-18468-8
1-280-35461-5 1-134-53897-9 0-203-19015-7 |
| Classificazione | 85.08 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 freedom and the scientific method; The importance of Kant's contribution; Conclusion; Moving toward an unknowable future; Chance and adaptation; Alternatives to some of Darwin's views; Darwin and the neo-Darwinian synthesis; Five ways of understanding stability and change; Conclusion
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 future; Chaos theory as Formative Teleology; Dissipative structure theory: constructing an unknowable future; Conclusion; Complexity and the emergence of novelty; Review of the management complexity writers' claim; Conclusion: the challenge; Differing views on complexity in organizations 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 discourse: focusing on the individual; Human action in complexity: retaining the individual focus; Transformation and human action: focusing on relationship and participation; Conclusion; Getting things done in organizations: from systems to complex responsive processes 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910679520103321 |
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Stacey Ralph D.
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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