Strategic management and organisational dynamics : the challenge of complexity to ways of thinking about organisations / Ralph D. Stacey.
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TextPublication details: Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2011Edition: 6th editionDescription: xix, 536 pISBN: 9780273725619 (ebook)Subject(s): Strategic planning | Organizational behavior | Management | Business and Management | Business strategyGenre/Form: Online access: Click here to access online Also available in printed form ISBN 9780273725596Summary: This textbook challenges the view that organizations succeed when they operate in states of stability, harmony and consensus. The author argues that an understanding of organizational dynamics leads to a greater insight into strategic management. Renowned for its unconventional thinking, Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics continues to be a refreshing alternative for students and lecturers of strategic management specifically looking for ?something different?. Stacey challenges the conceptual orthodoxy of planned strategy, focusing instead on the influence of more complex and unstable forces in the development of strategy. This book explores and challenges ways of thinking about strategy and organisational dynamics and raises questions about systemic and responsive processes, utilising insights from the complexity sciences. The purpose of this book is to assist people to make sense of their own experience of life in organisations, to explore their own thinking and to pay attention to and so what they do. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate study, this critically detailed account deals with up-to-the minute issues, raising the challenge of complexity within practice and theory. As such it remains unique amongst strategic management text books.
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Previous ed.: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This textbook challenges the view that organizations succeed when they operate in states of stability, harmony and consensus. The author argues that an understanding of organizational dynamics leads to a greater insight into strategic management. Renowned for its unconventional thinking, Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics continues to be a refreshing alternative for students and lecturers of strategic management specifically looking for ?something different?. Stacey challenges the conceptual orthodoxy of planned strategy, focusing instead on the influence of more complex and unstable forces in the development of strategy. This book explores and challenges ways of thinking about strategy and organisational dynamics and raises questions about systemic and responsive processes, utilising insights from the complexity sciences. The purpose of this book is to assist people to make sense of their own experience of life in organisations, to explore their own thinking and to pay attention to and so what they do. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate study, this critically detailed account deals with up-to-the minute issues, raising the challenge of complexity within practice and theory. As such it remains unique amongst strategic management text books.
Also available in printed form ISBN 9780273725596
Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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