| Description |
xvi, 486 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. The nature of strategy and organisational change -- Pt. 1. Systemic perspectives on strategy and organisational dynamics -- 2. The origins of systems thinking -- 3. The foundations of strategic choice theory: cybernetic systems and cognitivist psychology -- 4. Strategic choice -- 5. The foundations of learning organisation theory: systems dynamics and cognitivism -- 6. The learning organisation -- 7. Obstacles to strategic choice and organisational learning: open systems and psychoanalytic perspectives -- 8. Knowledge creation in organisations: second-order systems, autopoiesis and constructivist psychology -- 9. A social perspective: critical systems thinking and communities of practice -- Pt. 2. The challenge of complexity -- 10. Chaos theory, dissipative structures and synergetics -- 11. Complex adaptive systems -- 12. Systemic applications of chaos and complexity theory to organisations -- Pt. 3. Complex responsive processes perspectives on strategy and organising -- 13. Process thinking -- 14. Strategy as the emergence of organisational identity -- 15. The narrative structure of self-organising experience -- 16. Understanding organisations as complex responsive processes -- 17. Control, leadership and ethics -- 18. The implications of understanding organisations as complex responsive processes -- Management narratives -- 1. Innovation in a water utility / Jose Fonseca -- 2. The budget meeting / Phil Streatfield -- 3. Performance measurement / Phil Streatfield -- 4. Consulting and culture change / Patricia Shaw -- 5. Culture change at a factory / Patricia Shaw -- 6. The diversity project / David Scanlon -- 7. Global competencies / Jane Blacketer |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Strategic planning.
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Organizational behavior.
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| LC no. |
2002075980 |
| ISBN |
0273658980 paperback |
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