TY - BOOK AU - Stacey,Ralph D. TI - Strategic management and organisational dynamics: the challenge of complexity to ways of thinking about organisations SN - 0273708112 (pbk.) U1 - 658.4012 PY - 2007/// CY - Harlow PB - Financial Times Prentice Hall KW - Strategic planning KW - Organizational behavior KW - Management N1 - 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 ER -