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The Edge of Organization
Chaos and Complexity Theories of Formal Social Systems
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- English
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About this book
What Newton?s Principia was to his natural science colleagues, Russ Marion?s The Edge of Organization is to today?s social scientists. This book clearly elucidates the arrival of the social sciences at the end of the alley of modernism but then presents us with the tools and ideas to climb out of a dead end, rise above old limitations, and take flight for new horizons bright with promise for advancing both theory and praxis. . . . For social scientists, it is both the most relevant and most easily apprehended treatment to date of the totality of chaos and complexity theory and technique. --Raymond A. Eve, Editor, Chaos, Complexity, and Sociology The Edge of Organization offers a readable, comprehensive, and integrated overview of the new sciences of chaos and complexity. Author Russ Marion describes formal and social organizations from the perspective of chaos and complexity theories. His multidisciplinary approach will appeal to students and scholars across a wide range of social sciences. This book is generously illustrated and includes comprehensive references plus an annotated bibliography of useful books and articles. The Edge of Organization will appeal to students and professionals in sociology, management/ organization studies, management studies, marketing, political science, public administration, and psychology.
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Publisher
SAGE Publications, IncYear
1999Print ISBN
9780761912668, 9780761912651eBook ISBN
9781452263762Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 - The Edge of Organization
- Chapter 2 - Chaos and Organization
- Chapter 3 - Organization at the Edge
- Chapter 4 - Shifting Historical Premises to the Edge of Chaos
- Chapter 5 - A Nonlinear Redaction of Open Systems
- Chapter 6 - Structural Contingency Theory: Differentiation and Awareness
- Chapter 7 - Footprints of Complexity: The Nature of Order
- Chapter 8 - Resource Dependency: The Emergence of Order
- Chapter 9 - Organizations in Wonderland: Enacted Environment
- Chapter 10 - Coupling at the Edge
- Chapter 11 - Darwin and Organizations, Goats and Monkeys
- Chapter 12 - Pushing the Envelope: Limiting Organizational Expansion
- Chapter 13 - Changing Complex Organizations
- Chapter 14 - Stability and Change at the Edge
- Chapter 15 - Researching Social Chaos and Complexity
- Chapter 16 - Epilogue on Einstein's Island
- Notes
- Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- About the Author