Coherence in the Midst of Complexity: Advances in Social Complexity Theory - Hardcover

Letiche, Hugo; Lissack, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 023033850X ISBN 13: 9780230338500

Verlag: AIAA, 2011

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Complexity and emergence (the appearance and impact of the new) can be the bane of managers and their organizations. Both complexity and emergence threaten to upset adherence to predefined categories, which supposedly allows for efficiency. Indeed, traditional management thinking focuses on a retrospective coherence where ideas and events are assigned to categories, the categories are labeled, and outliers are treated as statistical deviants. The study of how such attributed (retrospective) sense-making breaks down in and around organizations is the focus of social complexity theory. Coherence in the Midst of Complexity discusses the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root. The book focuses on the experience of coherence and how such experiential lessons differ from the establishment and maintenance of categories and labels. The authors offer a four-fold logic for discussing experiential coherence and the embrace of emergence in organizations of all sizes.

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Author Michael Lissack: Michael Lissack is Executive Director and ISCE Professor of Meaning in Organizations at the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (ISCE), USA; Visiting Research Professor at the George Washington University School of Business, USA; Walter J. Hickel Professor of Leadership at Alaska Pacific University, USA; and a serial entrepreneur.

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• Verlag: AIAA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 023033850X
• ISBN 13: 9780230338500
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308
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