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Complexity in Organization Studies
Four Volume Set
Edited by:
- Stig O Johannessen - Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway
- Lesley Kuhn - University of Western Sydney, Australia
February 2012 | 1 770 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
How do today's leaders cope with the paradoxes of organizational life - stability and change, control and innovation, identity and diversity, power and creativity, and the largely unpredictable effects of communication technologies?
The application of scientific complexity and chaos theories to these managerial problems has grown dramatically over the past two decades, affecting all areas of management including organization studies, innovation and operations, finance, strategy and information systems.
This cross-disciplinary major work provides a coherent and essential reference for researchers and students seeking to understand real-life human organizing. The four-volume set explores the complex processes of organizing from their philosophical foundations and theoretical orientations, to the implications of the latest empirical research. The sets' articles have been selected by renowned editors in the field, with the support of an international advisory board for their coherence, differentiation, depth and originality.
Volume I: Ways of Thinking about Complexity
Volume II: Theorizing Complexity in Organization Studies
Volume III: Implications and Applications of Complexity Thinking in Organization Studies: Straetgy, Organizational Dynamics and Innovation
Volume IV: Implications and Applications of Complexity Thinking in Organization Studies: Leadership and Organizational Development
VOLUME ONE: WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT COMPLEXITY
PART ONE: SCIENTIFIC IDEAS AND PHILOSOPHICAL TREATMENTS
Ilya Prigogine
Time, Structure and Fluctuations
Edgar Morin
From the Concept of a System to the Paradigm of Complexity
Murray Gell-Mann
What Is Complexity?
Peter M. Allen
Evolving Complexity in Social Science
Jeffrey Goldstein
Emergence
Michael Dillon
Post-Structuralism, Complexity and Poetics
Hugo Letiche
Phenomenal Complexity Theory as Informed by Bergson
Lesley Kuhn
Complexity, Cybernetics and Human Knowing
Isabelle Stengers
The Challenge of Complexity
Paul Cilliers
Complexity, Deconstruction and Relativism
Klaus Mainzer
Challenges of Complexity in the 21st Century
PART TWO: SOCIOLOGICAL TREATMENTS AND CRITICISM
Hans Joas
Giddens' Theory of Structuration
John Shotter
A Poetics of Relational Forms
Ian Burkitt
The Shifting Concept of the Self
Michael Agar
Complexity Theory
Michael G. Flaherty and Gary Alan Fine
Present, Past and Future
Simonetta Tabboni
The Idea of Social Time in Norbert Elias
Chunglin Kwa
Romantic and Baroque Conceptions of Complex Wholes in the Sciences
Adrian Mackenzie
The Problem of the Attractor
Lesley Kuhn
Why Utilize Complexity Principles in Social Inquiry?
VOLUME TWO: THEORIZING COMPLEXITY IN ORGANIZATION STUDIES
PART ONE: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
Robert Chia
From Complexity Science to Complex Thinking
Alfonso Montuori
Complexity, Epistemology and the Challenge of the Future
K. Mathews et al
Why Study the Complexity Sciences in the Social Sciences?
Paul Cilliers
Boundaries, Hierarchies and Networks in Complex Systems
Michael R. Lissack, Michael Richardson and Kurt A. Richardson
When Modeling Social Systems, Models ? the Modeled
Haridimos Tsoukas and Mary Jo Hatch
Complex Thinking, Complex Practice
Jacco Van Ude, Kurt A. Richardson and Paul Cilliers
Postmodernism Revisited?
Lesley Kuhn and Robert Woog
Vortical Postmodern Ethnography
Zhu Zhichang
Complexity Science, Systems Thinking and Pragmatic Sensibility
PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES
W. Brian Arthur
Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns and Lock-in by Small Historical Events
James W. Begun
Chaos and Complexity; Frontiers of Organization Science
Philip Anderson
Complexity Theory and Organization Science
Bill McKelvey
Complexity Theory in Organization Science
James R. Taylor
The 'Rational' Organization Reconsidered
Ralph D. Stacey
Organizations as Complex Responsive Processes of Relating
John Shotter
Real Presences
Stig O. Johannessen and Ralph D. Stacey
Technology as Social Object
VOLUME THREE: IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION OF COMPLEXITY
Thinking in Organization Studies: Strategy, Organizational Dynamics and Innovation
PART ONE: STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS
Ralph D. Stacey
The Science of Complexity
Tony McGuinness and Robert E. Morgan
Strategy, Dynamic Capabilities and Complex Science
David M. Boje
Phenomenal Complexity Theory and Change at Disney
Robert MacIntosh and Donald MacLean
Conditioned Emergence
David Byrne
Complexity Theory and Planning Theory
Kate Houchin and Donald Maclean
Complexity Theory and Strategic Change
Miguel Pina e Cunha and Joao Viera da Cunha
Towards a Complexity Theory of Strategy
Angelique Chettiparamb
Bob Hodge and Gabriela Coronado
Understanding Change in Organizations in a Far-from-Equilibrium World
Colin Campbell-Hunt
Complexity in Practice
Niall Ferguson
Complexity and Collapse
PART TWO: INNOVATION, CREATIVITY AND LEARNING
Johan Roos and David Oliver
From Fitness Landscapes to Knowledge Landscapes
David Snowden
Complex Acts of Knowing
Alfonso Montuori
The Complexity of Innovation and the Improvization of Complexity
Ralph D. Stacey
Learning as an Activity of Interdependent People
Michael Nolan
The Emergence of Global Stability in Local Interaction in a Consulting Practice
Ysanne Carlisle and Elizabeth McMillan
Innovation in Organizations from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
Gita Surie and James K. Hazy
Generative Leadership
Carol Webb, Fiona Lettice and Mark Lemon
Facilitating Learning and Innovation in Organizations Using Complexity Science Principles
Stig O. Johannessen and Tone Merethe Berg Aasen
Exploring Innovation Processes from a Complexity Perspective
Tone Merethe Berg Aasen and Stig O. Johannessen
Exploring Innovation Processes from a Complexity Perspective
John Shotter
Situated Dialogic Action Research Disclosing 'Beginnings' for Innovative Change in Organizations
VOLUME FOUR: IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF COMPLEXITY
Thinking in Organization Studies: Leadership and Organizational Development
PART ONE: LEADERSHIP
Douglas Griffin, Patricia Shaw and Ralph D. Stacey
Speaking of Complexity Theory in Management Theory and Practice
Steve Maguire and Bill McKelvey
Complexity and Management
James Taylor
Leadership and Cult Values
David Levick and Lesley Kuhn
Fractality, Organizational Management and Creative Change
Mary Uhl-Bien, Russ Marion and Bill McKelvey
Complexity Leadership Theory
Astrid Scholtens
Controlled Collaboration in Disaster and Crisis Management in The Netherlands
Stig O. Johannessen
The Complexity Turn in Studies of Organizations and Leadership
Mary Uhl-Bien and Russ Marion
Complexity Leadership in Bureaucratic Forms of Organizing
Keith Morrison
Complexity Theory, School Leadership and Management
PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Patricia Shaw
Intervening in the Shadow Systems of Organizations
Barry A. Colbert
The Complex Resource-Based View
Bjorner Christensen
Emerging Participative Exploration
Hendrik Wagenaar
Governance, Complexity, and Democratic Participation
Farhad Dalal
Skirts, Sarees and Sarongs
Andrew Lee
Executive Coaching and Leading
Nol Groot
Senior Executives and the Emergence of Local Responsibilities
John H. Tobin
The Myth of Rational Objectivity and Leadership
