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The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management
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The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management
About this book
The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management is the first substantive scholarly work to provide a map of the state of art research in the growing field emerging at the intersection of complexity science and management studies. Edited and written by internationally respected scholars from management and related disciplines, the Handbook will be the definitive reference source for understanding the implications of complexity science for management research and practice.
Part One: Foundations introduces complexity science and its implications for the foundations of scientific knowledge, including management knowledge.
Part Two: Applications presents the numerous ways in which complexity science models and tools, as well as complexity thinking, are being applied to management and organizational phenomena and the insights gained as a result.
Part Three: Interfaces highlights how complexity science is transforming various non-management fields and, in so doing, creating exciting interfaces for bridging between management and related disciplines.
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Table of contents
- COVER
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Complexity and Management: Introducing the SAGE Handbook
- PART I - Foundations
- A - Key Concepts
- 1Complexity and Systems Thinking
- 2 Complexity Science and Organization
- 3 Emergence in Complex Systems
- 4 Constructing and Appreciating Complexity
- 5 Thoughts on Complexity and Computational Models
- B - Epistemological Perspectives and Considerations
- 6 A Scientific Realist Epistemology for Complexity Science
- 7 Exploring Organizational Effectiveness
- 8 Complexity, Poststructuralism and Organization
- 9 Causality and Explanation
- 10 Complexity and Limits to Knowledge:The Importance of Uncertainty
- 11 Complex Thinking: Towards an Oblique Strategy for Dealing with the Complex
- C - Methodological Implications and Tools
- 12 Applications of Kauffmanâs Coevolutionary NKCS Model to Management and Organization Studies
- 13 Using Genetic Algorithms to Model Strategic Interactions
- 14 Organizing at the Edge of Chaos: Insights from Action Research
- 15 From Skew Distributions to Power-law Science
- PART II - Applications
- A - Complexity and Organizing
- 16 Complexity and OrganizationâEnvironment Relations: Revisiting Ashbyâs Law of Requisite Variety
- 17 The Complexity of Industrial Ecosystems: Classification and Computational Modelling
- 18 Complexity and the Dynamics of Organizational Change
- 19 Complex Thought, Simple Talk: An Ecological Approach to Language-Based Change in Organizations
- 20 Organisational Learning and Complexity Science: Exploring the Joint Potential
- 21 Complexity and Management: A Pluralistic View
- B - Complexity and Managing
- 22 Implications of Complexity Science for the Study of Leadership
- 23 A Complexity Perspective on Strategic Human Resource Management
- 24 Complexity and the Rise of Distributed Control in Operations Management
- 25 Knowledge Management and Complexity
- 26 Complexity and Innovation
- 27 Complexity Science Contributions to the Field of Entrepreneurship
- 28 Complexity and Competitive Advantage
- 29 Complexity Theory and Corporate Strategy
- 30 More than a Metaphor: Complexity and the New Rules of Management
- PART III - Interfaces
- 31 Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Applications to Psychology and Management
- 32 The Value in Between:Organizations as Adapting and Evolving Networks
- 33 The Use of Complexity for Policy Exploration
- 34 Complexity, Habits and Evolution
- 35 Economics, Management and Complex Systems
- 36 How Complexity Science is Transforming Healthcare
- Author Index
- Subject Index