Ralph Stacey

Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations (eBook, ePUB)

Learning and Knowledge Creation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work demonstrates how the 'knowledge economy' can be seen in a new light when considered from a complexity perspective. It stresses the imporance of relationships as a source of - and influence on - information and knowledge creation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134535187
• Artikelnr.: 47885926

Autorenporträt

Ralph Stacey is Professor of Management and Director of the Complexity and Management Centre at the University of Hertfordshire, and a member of the Institute of Group Analysis. He is also consultant to managers at many levels accross a range of organizations and the author of a number of books and articles on strategy and complexity theory in management.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations, Series preface, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction:
can learning and knowledge creation in organizations really be managed?,
Part I. The foundations of mainstream views on learning and knowledge
creation in organizations: systems thinking, 2. Mainstream thinking about
learning and knowledge creation in organizations, 3. Different levels of
learning and knowledge creation in organizations: the individual and the
social, Part II. Toward a complexity perspective: the emergence of
knowledge in complex responsive processes of relating, 4. The emergence of
the individual and the social in communicative interaction, 5.
Communicative action in the medium of symbols, 6. The organization of
communicative action: rule-based or self-organizing knowledge?, 7. The
emergence of enabling constraints: power relations and unconscious
processes, 8. Organization as communicating in the living present: how
knowledge emerges in complex responsive processes of relating, Part III.
Systems thinking and the perspective of complex responsive processes:
comparisons and implications, 9. Comparing systems thinking and the
perspective of complex responsive processes, 10. The organizational
implications of complex responsive processes of knowledge creation,
Appendix: Autopoiesis: an inappropriate analogy for human action,
Bibliography, Index