Complexity, Organizations and Change

Name: Complexity, Organizations and Change
Brand: Routledge
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By Elizabeth McMillan

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Complexity science has seriously challenged long-held views in the scientific community about how the world works. These ideas, particularly about the living world, also have radical and profound implications for organizations and society as a whole. Complexity, Organizations and Change, available in paperback for the first time, describes and considers ideas and insights from complexity science and examines their use in organizations, especially in bringing about major organizational change. This key book explores how organizations, their design, the way they operate and, importantly, the people who co-create them, are thought of. Explaining the history and development of complexity science in an accessible way for the non-scientific reader, this outstanding book describes key concepts and their use in theory and practice. Illustrated with real-life examples from organizations in the UK, Europe and the USA, the book includes an in-depth case study of an organization which used complexity principles as part of a strategic change intervention. From this, useful models for introducing a complexity-based change process are derived. Complexity, Organizations and Change will appeal to academics, researchers and advanced students who are interested in complexity science and what it means for strategy, organization and management theory and organizational change.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

208

Release Date:

2006-02-01

Publication Date:

2006-05-17

Publisher:

Routledge

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

041539502X

ISBN13:

9780415395021

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

324 g

Height:

156 cm

Width:

234 cm

Thickness:

11 cm

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