The chaos frontier : creative strategic control for business

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The chaos frontier : creative strategic control for business

Ralph D. Stacey

Butterworth Heinemann, 1993

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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".

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