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The Chaos Frontier Ralph D. Stacey

The Chaos Frontier By Ralph D. Stacey

The Chaos Frontier by Ralph D. Stacey


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Summary

This volume applies the theories of scientific chaos and self-organization to management, and demonstrates that successful business organizations develop and control over the long-term through an unpredictable, creative and spontaneous process that depends on chance.

The Chaos Frontier Summary

The Chaos Frontier: Creative Strategic Control for Business by Ralph D. Stacey

Businesses today are concerned with managing change effectively. This book offers a new explanation of the creative behaviour of businesses which are dynamic systems. It applies the theories of scientific chaos and self-organization to management, and demonstrates that successful business organizations develop and control over the long-term through an unpredictable, creative and spontaneous process that depends on chance.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The concerns of dynamic management: goals, behaviour and change; relationship between control form and change situation; the mechanisms driving business development. Part 2 Today's most prominent management models: rational planning, entrepreneurial enthusiasm and political power; today's models - a limited understanding of management dynamics. Part 3 Scientific chaos and dynamic management: what scientific chaos means for managers; implications of chaos for controlling and developiing a business; strategic control is organizational learning; strategic control is spontaneous political choice; strategic control is creative exploration. Part 4 Management choice and action: chaos - a different perspective for action; management intervention and strategic control.

Additional information

GOR002041503
9780750609500
0750609508
The Chaos Frontier: Creative Strategic Control for Business by Ralph D. Stacey
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Elsevier Science & Technology
1993-01-18
409
N/A
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