Description: Coherence in the Midst of Complexity : Advances in Social Complexity Theory, Hardcover by Letiche, Hugo; Lissack, Michael; Schultz, Ron, ISBN 023033850X, ISBN-13 9780230338500, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Complexity and emergence (the appearance and impact of the new) can be the bane of managers and their organizations. Both complexity and emergence threaten to upset adherence to predefined categories, which supposedly allows for efficiency. Indeed, traditional management thinking focuses on a retrospective coherence where ideas and events are assigned to categories, the categories are labeled, and outliers are treated as statistical deviants. The study of how such attributed (retrospective) sense-making breaks down in and around organizations is the focus of social complexity theory. Coherence in the Midst of Complexity discusses the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root. Th focuses on the experience of coherence and how such experiential lessons differ from the establishment and maintenance of categories and labels. The authors offer a four-fold logic for discussing experiential coherenceand the embrace of emergence in organizations of all sizes"--
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Book Title: Coherence in the Midst of Complexity : Advances in Social Complex
Number of Pages: X, 297 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Coherence in the Midst of Complexity : Advances in Social Complexity Theory
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Social, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, General, Management, Strategic Planning, Organizational Development
Item Weight: 18.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Michael Lissack, Hugo Letiche, Kenneth A. Loparo, Ron Schultz
Subject Area: Philosophy, Business & Economics
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
