Organisation and Complexity: Using Complexity Science to Theorise Organisational Aliveness - Softcover

Van Uden, Jacco

 
9781581122220: Organisation and Complexity: Using Complexity Science to Theorise Organisational Aliveness
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1581122225 ISBN 13: 9781581122220
Publisher: Dissertation.com, 2004

Synopsis

Students of organisation have used complexity theory in many different ways and for many different reasons. What characterises the writings of most 'management thinkers', however, is that the authors are primarily concerned with the question of "how to make this complexity thing work for us?" This study takes a rather different approach. Ideas and concepts of the science of complexity are borrowed to develop the idea that organisations live lives of their own - an idea that is very much at odds with the dominant view that understands organisations as tools that we use to realise certain goals. To illustrate matters, the book discusses the developments of the organisation of Vitesse, a mediocre Dutch professional football club that according to its president needed to be transformed into a major player in the family entertainment industry.

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Publisher
Dissertation.com
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1581122225
ISBN 13 
9781581122220
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
160