The Sage handbook of complexity and management

"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 andpractice. 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 complexityscience 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 forbridging between management and related disciplines. ÍNDICE: 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 Bernard 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 ObliqueStrategy 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 theEdge 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 Shotterand 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 andMary 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. GuastelloThe 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 andComplex Systems - Paul Ormerod How Complexity Science Is Transforming Health Care - Brenda Zimmerman

• ISBN: 978-1-84787-569-3
• Editorial: Sage Publications
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 672
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés