The Interaction of Complexity and Management

Herausgeber: Lissack, Michael; Rivkin, Jan W.; Lissack, Michael R.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is complexity science? What is management? And how are the two linked? The potential of complexity science in the fields of management and organization studies has been explored before, yet there is little agreement on what complexity science truly is. Lissack and Rivkin, along with a panel of distinguished academics and executives, identify critical topics in the study of complexity science. They reveal complexity science to be a process, one seeking and understanding of the systems we inhabit, and ways of applying that understanding to the management of organizations. Complexity science is not a management fad, and the authors do not treat it as such. Instead, they offer useful and fascinating viewpoints on how work is managed in an age of business uncertainty, and how it can be more successfully managed with the aid of this rapidly evolving new field of science. Their multidisciplinary book combines systems theory, statistical modeling, and individual and organizational learning in an innovative new context. The volume takes a pragmatic approach: if it works, it's right. And complexity science, say the authors, work extremely well. This book is an important resource for upper level executives, specialists in organizational behavior, and their colleagues in the academic community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 657g
• ISBN-13: 9781567204278
• ISBN-10: 1567204279
• Artikelnr.: 21277121

Autorenporträt

MICHAEL R. LISSACK is Director of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, Boston, and editor of the journal Emergence. Lissack has taught economics at Williams College, research techniques at Henley, and business ethics at the Rotterdam School of Management. He is author, coauthor, or coeditor of five previous books, including Managing Complexity in Organizations (coedited with Hugh Gunz, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Complexity, Management, Coherence, and Understanding by Michael
Lissack Management Perspectives on Complexity Theories Complexity and
Management: Why Does It Matter? by Ron Schultz Complexity in Human Terms by
Roger Lewin and Birute Regine Complexity and Management: Models and Methods
by Steve Phelan The Role of Language by Michael Lissack Managerial Insights
from Complexity Science Complexity and the I-Space by Max Boisot Applying
Complexity: Really by Kevin Dooley Research on Interactions among
Management Decisions Jan Rivkin Complexity and Leadership by Bill McKelvey
Complexity, Bricolage, and Technology by Raghu Garud and Peter Karnoe Human
Complexity by Peter Senge A Few Words on Modeling by Dan Levinthal Beyond
"e"-Creating an Intelligent World by Robin Wood Twenty-First-Century
Management and the Complexity Paradigm by Hiroshi Tasaka Business,
Complexity, and "New Science" by Irene Sanders Complexity Science in
Practice Stories and Beliefs by Ron Schultz Complexity and Innovation by
John Seely Brown Complexity and Technology: Applied Reality by Bill
Fulkerson From Organic to Complex Knowledge Management through the Use of
Story by David Snowden A Practitioner's Perspective by Mark Michaels
Improving Health Care Quality from the View of Adaptive Systems by Helen
Harte An Action Theory of Complexity by Larry Prusak Complexity and
Management: Fad or Frontier? Complexity and Management: Where Do We Stand?
by Steve Maguire Reality and Complexity by Tom Petzinger Frontier, of
Course by Bill Frederick Or Is It a Fad? by Eric Abrahamson Complexity and
Mangement: An Expanding Traveling Wave by Jeffrey Goldstein Complexity and
Organization Science by Arie Lewin Final Words A Final Thought by Michael
Lissack Bibliography Index