The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and ManagementPeter Allen, Steve Maguire, Bill McKelvey SAGE, 18 mar 2011 - 672 páginas The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management is the first substantive scholarly work to provide a map of the state of art research in the growing field emerging at the intersection of complexity science and management studies. Edited and written by internationally respected scholars from management and related disciplines, the Handbook will be the definitive reference source for understanding the implications of complexity science for management research and practice. Part One: Foundations introduces complexity science and its implications for the foundations of scientific knowledge, including management knowledge. Part Two: Applications presents the numerous ways in which complexity science models and tools, as well as complexity thinking, are being applied to management and organizational phenomena and the insights gained as a result. Part Three: Interfaces highlights how complexity science is transforming various non-management fields and, in so doing, creating exciting interfaces for bridging between management and related disciplines. |
Índice
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2 Complexity Science and Organization | 53 |
3 Emergence in Complex Systems | 65 |
4 Constructing and Appreciating Complexity | 79 |
5 Thoughts on Complexity and Computational Models | 93 |
18 Complexity and the Dynamics of Organizational Change | 317 |
An Ecological Approach to LanguageBased Change in Organizations | 333 |
Exploring the Joint Potential | 349 |
A Pluralistic View | 366 |
B Complexity and Managing | 383 |
22 Implications of Complexity Science for the Study of Leadership | 385 |
23 A Complexity Perspective on Strategic Human Resource Management | 400 |
24 Complexity and the Rise of Distributed Control in Operations Management | 418 |
B Epistemological Perspectives and Considerations | 111 |
6 A Scientific Realist Epistemology for Complexity Science | 113 |
7 Exploring Organizational Effectiveness | 131 |
8 Complexity Poststructuralism and Organization | 142 |
9 Causality and Explanation | 155 |
The Importance of Uncertainty | 164 |
Towards an Oblique Strategy for Dealing with the Complex | 182 |
C Methodological Implications and Tools | 199 |
12 Applications of Kauffmans Coevolutionary NKCS Model to Management and Organization Studies | 201 |
13 Using Genetic Algorithms to Model Strategic Interactions | 220 |
Insights from Action Research | 235 |
15 From Skew Distributions to Powerlaw Science | 254 |
PART II Applications | 275 |
A Complexity and Organizing | 277 |
Revisiting Ashbys Law of Requisite Variety | 279 |
Classification and Computational Modelling | 299 |
25 Knowledge Management and Complexity | 436 |
26 Complexity and Innovation | 454 |
27 Complexity Science Contributions to the Field of Entrepreneurship | 471 |
28 Complexity and Competitive Advantage | 494 |
29 Complexity Theory and Corporate Strategy | 506 |
Complexity and the New Rules of Management | 524 |
PART III Interfaces | 541 |
31 Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Applications to Psychology and Management | 543 |
Organizations as Adapting and Evolving Networks | 557 |
33 The Use of Complexity for Policy Exploration | 570 |
34 Complexity Habits and Evolution | 590 |
35 Economics Management and Complex Systems | 604 |
36 How Complexity Science is Transforming Healthcare | 617 |
Author Index | 636 |
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