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Emergence - Complexity and Organization 2007 Annual (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,937
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Emergence - Complexity and Organization 2007 Annual (Hardcover, New): Peter M. Allen, Kurt A. Richardson, Jeffrey Goldstein

Emergence - Complexity and Organization 2007 Annual (Hardcover, New)

Peter M. Allen, Kurt A. Richardson, Jeffrey Goldstein

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Organizations of all kinds struggle to understand, adapt, respond and manipulate changing conditions in their internal and external environments. Approaches based on the causal, linear logic of mechanistic sciences and engineering continue to play an important role, given people's ability to create order. But such approaches are valid only within carefully circumscribed boundaries. They become counterproductive when the same organizations display the highly reflexive, context-dependent, dynamic nature of systems in which agents learn and adapt and new patterns emerge. The rapidly expanding discussion about complex systems offers important contributions to the integration of diverse perspectives and ultimately new insights into organizational effectiveness. There is increasing interest in complexity in mainstream business education, as well as in specialist business disciplines such as knowledge management. Real world systems can't be completely designed, controlled, understood or predicted, even by the so-called sciences of complexity, but they can be more effective when understood as complex systems. While many scientific disciplines explore complexity principally through abstract mathematical models and simulations, Emergence: Complexity & Organization explores the emerging understanding of human systems from both the 'hard' quantitative sciences and the 'soft' qualitative perspectives. This 2007 Annual includes articles from Alice MacGillivray, Dale Lockwood, L. Deborah Sword, Gerald Midgley, Viveca Asporth, Jack Meek, and many more, which explore a range of complexity-related topics from philosophical concerns through to the practical application of complexity ideas, concepts and frameworks in human organizations. Also included are a series of four reproductions of classical papers in the fields of complexity and systems, each with critical introductions that explore their modern relevance: "The Philosophy of the Present" by George Herbert Mead (originally published in 1932), "Emergence" by Michael Polanyi (originally published in 1966), "The Theory of Complex Phenomena" by Friedrich August von Hayek (originally published in 1967), and "The Pretence of Knowledge" by Friedrich August von Hayek (originally published in 1975).

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Imprint: Isce Publishing
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2008
First published: July 2008
Editors: Peter M. Allen • Kurt A. Richardson • Jeffrey Goldstein
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Laminated cover
Pages: 716
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-9817032-3-7
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > Reference works > Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General
Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > General
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LSN: 0-9817032-3-2
Barcode: 9780981703237

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