The chaos frontier : creative strategic control for business
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The chaos frontier : creative strategic control for business
Butterworth Heinemann, 1993
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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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