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Managing Organizational Complexity -

Managing Organizational Complexity

Philosophy, Theory and Application

Kurt A. Richardson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
592 Seiten
2005
Information Age Publishing (Verlag)
9781593113186 (ISBN)
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In introducing this first volume of a series exploring issues in managing complexity, Richardson (Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence) contends that no one has yet developed a reliable skill set for learning from the noise of complex systems.

Series Introduction; Michael Lissack and Kurt Richardson

Volume Introduction; Kurt Richardson

Section I. Philosophy.

Section Introduction; Kurt Richardson

Chapter 1. Knowing Complex Systems; Paul Cilliers

Chapter 2. "To Be or Not to Be? That Is [Not] the Question": Complexity Theory and the Need for Critical Thinking; Kurt Richardson

Chapter 3. How Can We Think the Complex? Carlos Gershenson and Francis Heylighan

Chapter 4. Emergence, Creative Process, and Self-Transcending Constructions; Jeffrey Goldstein

Chapter 5. Causality in Organized Complexity: The Role of Management; Stanley Salthe

Section II. Organizational Theory.

Section Introduction; Kurt Richardson

Chapter 6. From Excellence to Emergence: The Evolution of Management Thinking and the Influence of Complexity; Buck Lawrimore

Chapter 7. Unresolved Issues in Process-Centric Business Analysis: A Cathartic Role for Complexity; James Falconer

Chapter 8. The Use of Bytes to Analyse Complex Organisations; Shann Turnbull

Chapter 9. Chaos Principles of Forecasting; Hong Liu

Chapter 10. Dealing with Complexity in Organizational Control Processes: Drawing Lessons from the Human Brain; Rajaram Veliyath and K. Sathian

Chapter 11. Theory of Integral Complex Organization; Ronald Murray

Chapter 12. Self-Reproduction of the Enterprise: Von Neumann's Model Applied; Pavel Luksha

Chapter 13. Predicting the Human Weather: How Differentiation and Contextual Complexity Affect Behavior Prediction; Robert Jones and Gowri Parameswaran

Chapter 14. The Observation, Inquiry, and Measurement Challenges Surfaced by Complexity Theory; Eric Dent

Chapter 15. An Intersubjective Measure of Complexity Grounds: A New Approach to the Study of Organizational Complexity; Mihnea Moldoveanu

Chapter 16. Storytelling and the Complex Epistemology of Organizations; Ken Baskin

Chapter 17. Advancing Complexity Theory into the Human Domain; Barbara Simpson

Chapter 18. Ancient Insights into the Modern Organization; Julie Richardson

Chapter 19. Imagining Complex Partnerships; Will Medd

Chapter 20. Machines or Gardens... Or Both? Patrick Connor and Carole Napolitano

Chapter 21. The Improvised-Orchestration Model of Organizational Evolution; Tadahiko Kawai

Chapter 22. Parameters for Sustained Orderly Growth in Learning Organizations; James Horn

Chapter 23. A Complexity-Based Scrutiny of Learning from Organizational Crises; Dawn Gilpin

Section III. Real World Application.

Section Introduction; Kurt Richardson

Chapter 24. The Implications of Complexity for Business Process and Strategy; Peter Allen, Jamie Boulton, Mark Strathern and James Baldwin

Chapter 25. Agent-Based Models to Manage the Complex; Duncan Robertson

Chapter 26. The Coherent Management of Complex Projects and the Potential Role of Group Decision Support Systems; Kurt Richardson, Andrew Tait, Johan Roos and Michael Lissack

Chapter 27. The Complexity of Complex Systems Conferences: Reflexivity and Walking the Talk; Michael Lissack

Chapter 28. Complexity and Spatiality: Regions, Networks and Fluids in Sustainable Water Management; Will Medd and Simon Marvin

Chapter 29. Encouraging Strategic Change by Using Complexity-Based Principles: A Case Study of the Open University, UK; Elizabeth McMillan

Chapter 30. Provoking Chaordic Change in a Dutch Manufacturing Firm; Frans van Eijnatten and Maarten van Galen

Postscript; Andrew Wilson

References.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.10.2005
Reihe/Serie ISCE Book Series: Managing the Complex
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 820 g
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Planung / Organisation
ISBN-13 9781593113186 / 9781593113186
Zustand Neuware
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