Complexity, Learning and Organizations

A quantum interpretation of business

Walter R.J. Baets

212 pages, parution le 28/06/2006

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In this innovative and thought-provoking book, the author takes an original look at some of the new ways of understanding how organizations work including complexity, chaos theory and quantum structures.

In a readable and accessible style, Walter Baet's argues that we need a new way of looking at the world and at human systems, in organizations and in society as a whole. He proposes a holistic management approach which is in direct opposition to the short-term shareholder value driven approach which dominates much management practice. The aim is to encourage the emergence of a new type of learning within organizations. To illustrate this, he discusses self-organizing systems, the complexity paradigm, the nature and use of knowledge; management learning at both the organizational and individual level and personal development. Finally, he argues in favor of considering business and economics as a network of agents that operate based on synchronicity - the quantum structure of business.

Encouraging the reader to reflect on their own experiences, and drawing on examples from a number of real-life company cases, Walter Baets delivers a readable and thought-provoking book. For students and managers interested in complexity, knowledge management, innovation and organizational learning, it will be an invaluable guide to new ways of looking at organizations, learning and innovation.

L'auteur - Walter R.J. Baets

Walter Baets is Director of the European Centre of Knowledge Management at Euromed Marseille, and was formally a Professor of Innovation and Knowledge Management at Nyenrode University where he received the Best Teacher Award. He has published 10 books, and numerous academic articles and conference presentations. His Dutch book on which this project is based (Who sows order spawns chaos) was ranked one of the top 10 management books in the main Dutch management journal.

Sommaire

List of illustrations
About the author
Preface
We humans
Paradigms, truth and postmodernism
The underlying theory: a new paradigm
Gödel for beginners: the concept of self-reference
Knowledge and learning
The learning manager
Does our society ever learn?
The quantum interpretation
Quantum economics, or the quantum interpretation of management
Let us start learning now: what can you do yourself?
Epilogue: some poems of Erna Oldenboom
Bibliography
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Routledge
Auteur(s)	Walter R.J. Baets
Parution	28/06/2006
Nb. de pages	212
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	333g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415381796
ISBN13	978-0-415-38179-6