A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organisations

Taking experience seriously

Ralph Stacey, Douglas Griffin

206 pages, parution le 28/09/2005

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Résumé

Part of the Complexity as the Experience of Organizing series, this book applies complex responsiveness theory to real-life leadership experiences. It features contributions from and details the experience of organizational practitioners, leaders, consultants and managers from various organizations through narrative accounts. It addresses questions such as:

How do widespread or global patterns emerge and evolve in the local interactions between people?
What actually happens in global change programmes?
What does this imply about the relationship between the local and the global?

Exploring the perspective of complex responsive processes, the book's contributors examine how this assists them in making sense of their experience, and how this awareness then leads to their development.

This book is a valuable study for academics, business school students and practitioners, as rather than offering mere descriptions of organizational life, it provides reflective accounts of real-life experiences of researching in organizations.

L'auteur - Ralph Stacey

Ralph Stacey is Director of the Complexity and Management Centre at the Business School of the University of Hertfordshire and Director of the Doctor of Management programme run by the Centre. He is one of the editors of the Complexity and Emergence in Organizations series, and editor of five books in this series.

L'auteur - Douglas Griffin

Douglas Griffin is Associate Director of the Complexity and Management Centre at the Business School of the University of Hertfordshire and a supervisor on the Doctor of Management programme run by the Centre. He is also an independent consultant. He is one of the editors of the Complexity and Emergence in Organizations series, and editor of three books in this series.

Sommaire

Notes on contributors
Series preface
Introduction: researching organizations from a complexity perspective
Experience and method: a complex responsive processes perspective on research in organizations
Belief, truth and justification: issues of methodology, discourse and the validity of personal narratives
Emerging participative exploration: consultation as research
Letting go, keeping connected and change at the Phoenix Project
To understand a practice of consulting
Organizational development in the National Health Service
Index

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Éditeur(s)	Routledge
Auteur(s)	Ralph Stacey, Douglas Griffin
Parution	28/09/2005
Nb. de pages	206
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	349g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415351317
ISBN13	978-0-415-35131-7