Complexity in Organization Studies
by Stig O JohannessenFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-02-22
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications Ltd
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Summary
How do today's leaders cope with the paradoxes of organizational life - stability and change, control and innovation, identity and diversity, power and creativity, and the largely unpredictable effects of endless variations of communication technologies? The application of scientific complexity and chaos theories to these managerial problems has grown dramatically over the past two decades, affecting all areas of management areas including innovation and operations management, finance, organization studies, strategy, decisions science and information systems. This four-volume set lays out the philosophical foundations, theoretical orientations, as well as empirical explorations and research into the complex processes of organizing. The sets' articles have been selected by renowned editors in the field, with the support of an international advisory board for their coherence, differentiation, depth and originality. Volume One: Ways of Thinking about Complexity Volume Two: Theorizing Complexity in Organization Studies Volume Three: Implications and Applications of Complexity Thinking in Organization Studies: Straetgy, Organizational Dynamics and Innovation Volume Four: Implications and Applications of Complexity Thinking in Organization Studies: Leadership and Organizational Development
Table of Contents
| Ways of Thinking About Complexity | |
| Scientific Ideas and Philosophical Treatments | |
| Time, Structure and Fluctuations | |
| From the Concept of a System to the Paradigm of Complexity | |
| What Is Complexity? | |
| Evolving Complexity in Social Science | |
| Emergence | |
| a Construct amid a Thicket of Conceptual Snares | |
| Post-Structuralism, Complexity and Poetics | |
| Phenomenal Complexity Theory as Informed by Bergson | |
| Complexity, Cybernetics and Human Knowing | |
| The Challenge of Complexity | |
| Unfolding the Ethics of Science | |
| Complexity, Deconstruction and Relativism | |
| Challenges of Complexity in the 21st Century | |
| An Interdisciplinary Introduction | |
| Sociological Treatments and Criticism | |
| Giddens' Theory of Structuration | |
| Introductory Remarks on a Sociological Transformation of the Philosophy of Praxis | |
| a Poetics of Relational Forms | |
| The Sociality of Everyday Social Life | |
| The Shifting Concept of the Self | |
| Complexity Theory | |
| An Exploration and Overview Based on John Holland's Work | |
| Present, Past and Future | |
| Conjugating George Herbert Mead's Perspective on Time | |
| The Idea of Social Time in Norbert Elias | |
| Romantic and Baroque Conceptions of Complex Wholes in the Sciences | |
| The Problem of the Attractor | |
| a Singular Generality between Science and Social Theory | |
| Why Utilize Complexity Principles in Social Inquiry? | |
| Theorizing Complexity in Organization Studies | |
| Methodological Issues | |
| From Complexity Science to Complex Thinking | |
| Organizations as Simple Location | |
| Complexity, Epistemology and the Challenge of the Future | |
| Why Study the Complexity Sciences in the Social Sciences? | |
| Boundaries, Hierarchies and Networks in Complex Systems | |
| When Modeling Social Systems, Models ? the Modeled | |
| Reacting to Wolfram's a New Kind of Science | |
| Complex Thinking, Complex Practice | |
| The Case for a Narrative Approach to Organizational Complexity | |
| Postmodernism Revisited? | |
| Complexity Science and the Study of Organizations | |
| Vortical Postmodern Ethnography | |
| Introducing a Complexity Approach to Systemic Social Theorizing | |
| Complexity Science, Systems Thinking and Pragmatic Sensibility | |
| Organizational Issues | |
| Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns and Lock-in by Small Historical Events | |
| Chaos and Complexity; Frontiers of Organization Science | |
| Complexity Theory and Organization Science | |
| Complexity Theory in Organization Science | |
| Seizing the Promise or Becoming a Fad | |
| The 'Rational' Organization Reconsidered | |
| An Exploration of Some of the Organizational Implications of Self-Organizing | |
| Organizations as Complex Responsive Processes of Relating | |
| Real Presences | |
| Meaning as Living Moment in a Participatory World | |
| Technology as Social Object | |
| a Complex Responsive Processes Perspective | |
| Implications and Application of Complexity | |
| Thinking in Organization Studies: Strategy, Organizational Dynamics and Innovation | |
| Strategy and Organizational Dynamics | |
| The Science of Complexity | |
| An Alternative Perspective for Strategic Change Processes | |
| Strategy, Dynamic Capabilities and Complex Science | |
| Management Rhetoric versus Reality | |
| Phenomenal Complexity Theory and Change at Disney | |
| Response to Letiche | |
| Conditioned Emergence | |
| Researching Change and Changing Research | |
| Complexity Theory and Planning Theory | |
| a Necessary Encounter | |
| Complexity Theory and Strategic Change | |
| An Empirically Informed Critique | |
| Towards a Complexity Theory of Strategy | |
| Metaphors in Complexity Theory and Planning | |
| Understanding Change in Organizations in a Far-from-Equilibrium World | |
| Complexity in Practice | |
| Complexity and Collapse | |
| Empires on the Edge of Chaos | |
| Innovation, Creativity and Learning | |
| From Fitness Landscapes to Knowledge Landscapes | |
| Complex Acts of Knowing | |
| Paradox and Descriptive Self-Awareness | |
| The Complexity of Innovation and the Improvization of Complexity | |
| Social Science, Art and Creativity | |
| Learning as an Activity of Interdependent People | |
| The Emergence of Global Stability in Local Interaction in a Consulting Practice | |
| Innovation in Organizations from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective | |
| Generative Leadership | |
| Nurturing Innovation in Complex Systems | |
| Facilitating Learning and Innovation in Organizations Using Complexity Science Principles | |
| Exploring Innovation Processes from a Complexity Perspective | |
| Theoretical and Methodological Approach | |
| Exploring Innovation Processes from a Complexity Perspective | |
| Experiences from the Sior Case | |
| Situated Dialogic Action Research Disclosing 'Beginnings' for Innovative Change in Organizations | |
| Implications and Applications of Complexity | |
| Thinking in Organization Studies: Leadership and Organizational Development | |
| Leadership | |
| Speaking of Complexity Theory in Management Theory and Practice | |
| Complexity and Management | |
| Moving from Fad to Firm Foundations | |
| Leadership and Cult Values | |
| Moving from the Idealized to the Experienced | |
| Fractality, Organizational Management and Creative Change | |
| Complexity Leadership Theory | |
| Shifting Leadership from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Era | |
| Controlled Collaboration in Disaster and Crisis Management in The Netherlands | |
| History and Practice of an Overestimated and Underestimated Concept | |
| The Complexity Turn in Studies of Organizations and Leadership | |
| Relevance and Implications | |
| Complexity Leadership in Bureaucratic Forms of Organizing | |
| a Meso Model | |
| Complexity Theory, School Leadership and Management | |
| Questions for Theory and Practice | |
| Organizational Development | |
| Intervening in the Shadow Systems of Organizations | |
| Consulting from a Complexity Perspective | |
| The Complex Resource-Based View | |
| Implications for Theory and Practice in Strategic Human Resource Management | |
| Emerging Participative Exploration | |
| Consultation as Research | |
| Governance, Complexity, and Democratic Participation | |
| How Citizens and Public Officials Harness the Complexities of Neighborhood Decline | |
| Skirts, Sarees and Sarongs | |
| The Rhetoric and Reality behind the Celebration of Diversity in Organizational Life | |
| Executive Coaching and Leading | |
| Senior Executives and the Emergence of Local Responsibilities | |
| a Complexity Approach to Identity Development and Performance Improvement | |
| The Myth of Rational Objectivity and Leadership | |
| The Realities of a Hospital Merger from a CEO's Perspective | |
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