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  • Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations

    Learning and Knowledge Creation

    by Ralph Stacey ...
    Series series Complexity and Emergence in Organizations
    The past decade has seen increasing focus on the importance of information and knowledge in economic and social processes, the so-called 'knowledge economy'. This is reflected in the popularity amongst practicing managers and organizational theorists of notions of learning, sense-making, knowledge creation, knowledge management and intellectual capital in organizations and more recently, of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Tools and Techniques of Leadership and Management

    Meeting the Challenge of Complexity

    by Ralph Stacey ...
    Many of today’s books on the tools and techniques of leadership and management provide descriptions of long lists for use in decision-making, leading, coaching and project management. This book takes a completely different approach. It contests the claims that the tools and techniques are based on evidence and explains why human activities of leading and managing are simply not amenable to ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Complexity and Organization

    Readings and Conversations

    Edited by Robert Macintosh, Donald Maclean, Ralph Stacey, Douglas Griffin ...
    In the past decade, complexity-based thinking has exerted an increasing, yet somewhat controversial authority over management theory and practice. This has in some part been due to the influence of a number of high-profile articles and the not inconsiderable hype which has accompanied them. Another feature of the subject’s development has been the diversity of the origins of the thinking and the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Complexity and the Experience of Leading Organizations

    Edited by Douglas Griffin, Ralph Stacey ...
    Series series Complexity as the Experience of Organizing
    The contributors to this book are leaders, consultants or managers in organizations who provide narrative accounts of their actual work and daily experience. They explore how the perspective of complex responsive processes assists them to make sense of their experience and so to develop their practice.Offering a different method of making sense of an individual’s experience in a rapidly changing ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Experiencing Spontaneity, Risk & Improvisation in Organizational Life

    Working Live

    Edited by Patricia Shaw, Ralph Stacey ...
    Series series Complexity as the Experience of Organizing
    The perspective of complex responsive processes draws on analogies from the complexity sciences, bringing in the essential characteristics of human agents, understood to emerge in social processes of communicative interaction and power relating. The result is a way of thinking about life in organizations that focuses attention on how organizational members cope with the unknown as they perpetually ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Experiencing Emergence in Organizations

    Local Interaction and the Emergence of Global Patterns

    Edited by Ralph Stacey ...
    Series series Complexity as the Experience of Organizing
    Examining the experiences of organizational practitioners, this informative book features contributions from experienced leaders, consultants and managers in various organizations, and narrative accounts of the contributors work address key topical questions.Rather than offering descriptions of organizational life, this book provides reflective accounts of real life experiences of researching in ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organisations

    Taking Experience Seriously

    Edited by Douglas Griffin, Ralph Stacey ...
    Series series Complexity as the Experience of Organizing
    Part of the Complexity as the Experience of Organizing series, this book applies complex responsiveness theory to real-life leadership experiences. It features contributions from and details the experience of organizational practitioners, leaders, consultants and managers from various organizations through narrative accounts. It addresses questions such as:How do widespread or global patterns ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Complexity and the Experience of Managing in Public Sector Organizations

    Edited by Ralph Stacey, Douglas Griffin ...
    Series series Complexity as the Experience of Organizing
    A fundamental problem of public sector governance relates to the very way of thinking it reflects; where organization is thought of as a ‘thing’, a system designed to deliver what its designers choose. This volume questions that way of thinking and takes a perspective in which organizations are complex responsive processes of relating between people.Bringing together the work of participants on ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    Pedagogies for supervision

    by Barbara Kamler, Pat Thomson ...
    Helping Doctoral Students Write offers a proven approach to effective doctoral writing. By treating research as writing and writing as research, the authors offer pedagogical strategies for doctoral supervisors that will assist the production of well-argued and lively dissertations.It is clear that many doctoral candidates find research writing complicated and difficult, but the advice they ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies

    Edited by Ann Langley, Haridimos Tsoukas ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies provides a comprehensive and timely overview of the field. This volume offers a compendium of perspectives on process thinking, process organizational theory, process research methodology and empirical applications. The emphasis is on a combination of pedagogical contributions and in-depth reviews of current thinking and research in each of the ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics

    by Ralph.D. Stacey, Chris Mowles ...
    Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics remains unique amongst strategic management textbooks by taking a refreshingly alternative look at the subject. Drawing on the sciences of complexity as well as a broad range of social scientific literature, Stacey and Mowles challenge the conceptual orthodoxy of planned strategy, focusing instead on emergence and the predictable unpredictability of ... Read more

    $44.69 USD

  • Understanding Organizational Culture

    by Mats Alvesson ...
    With his usual engaging and inimitable style, Mats Alvesson takes the reader on a riveting journey through the diverse ways in which culture itself can be understood and how these powerfully inform organizational life.′ - Blake E. Ashforth, Arizona State University′Understanding Organizational Culture comunicates complex ideas in a manner that will illuminate for those who are less familiar with ... Read more

    $93.59 USD