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A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organisations - Taking Experience Seriously (Hardcover)
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A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organisations - Taking Experience Seriously (Hardcover)
Series: Complexity as the Experience of Organizing
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The perspective of complex responsive processes draws on analogies
from the complexity sciences, bringing in the essential
characteristics of human agents, understood to emerge in social
processes of communicative interaction and power-relating. The
result is a way of thinking about life in organizations that
focuses attention on how organizational members cope with unknown
as they perpetually create organizational futures together.
Providing a natural successor to the Editors' earlier series
(Complexity and Emergence in Organizations) this series Complexity
as the Experience of Organizing, aims to take this work further by
taking very seriously the experience of organizational
practitioners, and showing how taking the perspective of complex
responsive process yields deeper insight into practice and so
develops that practice.
In this book, all of the contributors work as leaders, consultants
or managers in organizations. They provide narrative accounts of
their actual work addressingquestions such as:
- How does the work of the researcher actually assist managers when
the uncertainty is so great that they do no know what they are
doing yet?
- What does research in organizations actually achieve?
- If patters of human interaction produced nothing but further
patterns of human interaction, in the creation of which we are all
participating, is there a detached way of understanding
organizations from the position of the objective observer?
In considering such questions in terms of their daily experience,
the contributors explore how the perspective of complex responsive
processes assists them to make sense of their experience and so to
develop their practice. "AComplexity Perspective on Researching
Organizations" offers a different method for making sense of
experience in a rapidly changing world by using reflective accounts
of ordinary everyday life in organizations rather than idealized
accounts. The editors' commentary introduces and contextualizes
these experiences as well as drawing out key themes for further
research.
"A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organizations" will be of
value to readers from amongst those academics and business school
students and practitioners who are looking for reflective accounts
of real life experiences of researching in organizations, rather
than further prescriptions of what life in organizations ought to
be like.
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