Coherence in the midst of complexity: advances in social complexity theory

A discussion on the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root. The authors focus on the experience of coherence and how such experiential lessons differ from the establishment and maintenance of categories and labels. HUGO LETICHE Research Professor at the Universiteit voor Humanistiek, Utrecht, The Netherlands, where he has directed the mid-career practitioner PhD program. He has published in 'Organization Studies', 'Culture & Organization', 'JOCM, E:CO. Emergence', 'Revue Sciences de Gestion', 'Society Business Review'etc.; and (co-)written seven books; and had chapters in some forty others. MICHAEL LISSACK director of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (ISCE) and a serial entrepreneur. He founded both a non-profit research institute and a charity for artists, launched an international PhD program in corporate anthropology, has written half dozen books, been a successful Wall Street banker, and a candidate for public office. RON SCHULTZ Founder and Executive Director of the microfinance/micro-lending program, the Social Enterprise Zone and Lending4Change and the author of a number of books including 'Adjacent Opportunities b Sparking Emergent Social Action', and 'Unconventional Wisdom', 'Open Boundaries: Creating Business Innovation through Complexity'. INDICE: Introduction - Miracles and Nasty Surprises - The Failure of Models & Labels; the Success of Experience & Emergence - Two Kinds of Coherence b Ascribed and Emergent - Models, Homologies & Simulacra - The Ascribed Coherence of Thagard and Weick - Coherence and Business Success - Emergence, Coherence & Narrative - Affordances and Organization - Homology: Sense-MakingRevisited - But Experience is Different - Complexity Tools: the Semiotic Square & Homology - Steps to Implementation

• ISBN: 978-0-230-33850-0
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés