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Strategic management and organisational dynamics : the challenge of complexity to ways of thinking about organisations / Ralph D. Stacey.

By: Stacey, Ralph D.
Publisher: Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2007Edition: 5th ed.Description: xvi, 480 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0273708112 (pbk.); 9780273708117 (pbk.).Subject(s): Strategic planning | Organizational behavior | ManagementDDC classification: 658.4012
Contents:
1 Thinking about strategy and organisational change -- 2 The origins of systems thinking -- 3 Thinking in terms of strategic choice : cybernetic systems, cognitivist and humanistic psychology -- 4 Thinking in terms of organisational learning and knowledge creation : systems dynamics, cognitivist, humanistic and constructivist psychology -- 5 Thinking in terms of organisational psychodynamics : open systems and psychoanalytic perspectives -- 6 Thinking about participation in systems : second-order systems and autopoiesis -- 7 Thinking about strategy process -- 8 The complexity sciences -- 9 Systemic applications of complexity sciences to organisations -- 10 Responsive processes thinking -- 11 The emergence of organisational strategy in local communicative interaction : complex responsive processes of conversation -- 12 The link between the local communicative interaction of strategising and the population-wide patterns of strategy -- 13 The emergence of organisational strategy in local communicative interaction : complex responsive processes of ideology and power relating -- 14 The emergence of organisational strategy in local interaction : the narrative patterning of everyday experience -- 15 Complex responsive processes and the traditional concerns of the strategist : technology, resources, markets, planning, control and performance -- 16 Complex responsive processes : implications for thinking about organisational dynamics and strategy.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-466) and index.

1 Thinking about strategy and organisational change -- 2 The origins of systems thinking -- 3 Thinking in terms of strategic choice : cybernetic systems, cognitivist and humanistic psychology -- 4 Thinking in terms of organisational learning and knowledge creation : systems dynamics, cognitivist, humanistic and constructivist psychology -- 5 Thinking in terms of organisational psychodynamics : open systems and psychoanalytic perspectives -- 6 Thinking about participation in systems : second-order systems and autopoiesis -- 7 Thinking about strategy process -- 8 The complexity sciences -- 9 Systemic applications of complexity sciences to organisations -- 10 Responsive processes thinking -- 11 The emergence of organisational strategy in local communicative interaction : complex responsive processes of conversation -- 12 The link between the local communicative interaction of strategising and the population-wide patterns of strategy -- 13 The emergence of organisational strategy in local communicative interaction : complex responsive processes of ideology and power relating -- 14 The emergence of organisational strategy in local interaction : the narrative patterning of everyday experience -- 15 Complex responsive processes and the traditional concerns of the strategist : technology, resources, markets, planning, control and performance -- 16 Complex responsive processes : implications for thinking about organisational dynamics and strategy.