The SAGE handbook of complexity and management. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of complexity and management
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Peter Allen, Steve Maguire and Bill McKelvey.
• Other Names: Allen, Peter, 1937-; Maguire, Steve; McKelvey, Bill
• Contents: Introduction - Peter Allen, Steve Maguire and Bill McKelvey; PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS; Key Concepts; Complexity and Systems Thinking - Yasmin Merali and Peter Allen; Complexity Science and Organization - Raymond-Alain Thietart and Bérnard Forgues; Emergence in Complex Systems - Jeffrey Goldstein; Constructing and Appreciating Complexity - Steve Maguire; Thoughts on Complexity and Computational Models - Michael J. Prietula; Epistemological Perspectives and Considerations; A Scientific Realist Epistemology for Complexity Science - Bill McKelvey; Exploring Organizational Effectiveness: The Value of Complex Realism as a Frame of Reference and Systematic Comparison as a Method - David Byrne; Complexity, Post-Structuralism and Organization - Paul Cilliers; Causality and Explanation - Alicia Juarrero; Complexity and Limits to Knowledge: The Importance of Uncertainty - Peter Allen and Jean Boulton; Complex Thinking: Towards an Oblique Strategy for Dealing with the Complex - Robert Chia; Methodological Implications and Tools; Applications of Kauffman's Co-Evolutionary NKCS Model to Management and Organization Studies - Richard Vigden and Larry Bull; Using Genetic Algorithms to Model Strategic Interaction - William Martin Tracy; Organizing at the Edge of Chaos: Insights from Action Research - Donald Maclean and Robert Macintosh; From Skew Distributions to Power-Law Science - Pierpaolo Andriani and Bill McKelvey; PART TWO: APPLICATIONS; Complexity and Organizing; Complexity and Organization-Environment Relations: Revisiting Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety - Max Boisot and Bill McKelvey; The Complexity of Industrial Ecosystems: Classification and Computational Modelling - James Baldwin; Complexity and the Dynamics of Organizational Change - Glenda H. Eoyang; Complex Thought, Simple Talk: An Ecological Approach to Language-Based Change in Organizations - John Shotter and Haridimos Tsoukas; Organizational Learning and Complexity Science: Exploring the Joint Potential - Eve Mitleton-Kelly and Ben Ramalingam; Complexity and Management: A Pluralistic View - Kurt A. Richardson; Complexity and Managing; Implications of Complexity Science for the Study of Leadership - Russ Marion and Mary Uhl-Bien; A Complexity Perspective on Strategic Human Resource Management - Barry A. Colbert and Elizabeth C. Kurucz; Complexity and the Rise of Distributed Control in Operations Management - Arash Azadegan and Kevin J. Dooley; Knowledge Management and Complexity - Max Boisot; Complexity and Innovation - Pierpaolo Andriani; Complexity Science Contributions to the Field of Entrepreneurship - Benyamin B. Lichtenstein; Complexity and Competitive Advantage - Oliver Baumann and Nicolaj Siggelkow; Complexity Theory and Corporate Strategy - Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Henning Piezunka; More than a Metaphor: Complexity and the New Rules of Management - James K. Hazy; PART THREE: INTERFACES; Non-Linear Dynamical Systems Applications to Psychology and Management - Stephen J. Guastello; The Value in Between: Organizations as Adapting and Evolving Networks - Ce[ac]sar A. Hidalgo; The Use of Complexity for Policy Exploration - Steven Bankes; Complexity, Habits and Evolution - Geoffrey M. Hodgson; Economics Management and Complex Systems - Paul Ormerod; How Complexity Science Is Transforming Health Care - Brenda Zimmerman;
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (672 pages)
• Subjects: 658.001; Management -- Philosophy; Complexity (Philosophy)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446209745; 1446209741
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.