Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics The Challenge of Complexity

Name: Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics The Challenge of Complexity
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ISBN: 9780273658986

ISBN-10: 0273658980

ISBN-13: 9780273658986

Edition: 4th 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Ralph D. Stacey

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In the fourth edition of this successful text, Ralph Stacey continues to question the view that organisations operate and succeed in relatively stable environments. He argues that in order to succeed in uncertainty and continual change, organisations need to create new perspectives and learn from the chaos within which they operate. This edition continues to focus on this radically different approach to strategic management. The central tenets of this approach have to do with unpredictability and the limitations of control, and therefore it argues against the rational models of planning and control covered in other strategy textbooks. This is done by emphasising the importance of…

Book details

List price: $87.50
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 1/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.112
Language: English



The nature of strategy and organisational change


The origins of systems thinking


The foundations of strategic choice theory: cybernetic systems and cognitivist psychology


Strategic choice


The foundations of learning organisation theory: systems dynamics and cognitivism


The learning organisation


Obstacles to strategic choice and organisational learning: open systems and psychoanalytic perspectives


Knowledge creation in organisations: second order systems, autopoiesis and constructivist psychology


A social perspective: critical systems thinking and communities of practice


Chaos theory, dissipative structures and synergetics


Complex adaptive systems


Systemic applications of chaos and complexity theory to organisations


Process thinking


Strategy as the emergence of organisational identity


The narrative structure of self-organising experience


Understanding organisations as complex responsive processes


Control, leadership and ethics


The implications of understanding organisations as complex responsive processes


Management narratives


Index