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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Stig O. Johannessen is a Senior Researcher at NTNU Social Research in Trondheim, Norway. After 12 years in business practice, Dr. Johannessen completed a PhD in Organizational Studies at NTNU and went on to work as a researcher, consultant and adjunct professor of organization and management. As a Fellow of the Complexity and Management Centre (CMC) at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and the Chairman of the CMC network in Norway, he has been involved in the development and application of complexity thinking in organisational studies, working with leaders and consultants in the international CMC network for over a decade. Dr. Lesley Kuhn is Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies in the College of Business at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. With degrees in music, education and environmental science and a doctorate in philosophy she brings a transdisciplinary perspective to the study of organizations. Over the past 13 years Dr. Kuhn has been bringing complexity (science/theory) habits of thought to study of organizations. Dr. Kuhn has authored more than 40 book chapters and published papers and led more than 30 research projects. Klappentext This major work provides a coherent and essential reference for researchers and students seeking to understand complexity approaches to organization studies. The four-volume set brings together a comprehensive collection of groundbreaking and significant articles from an emerging research field which has seen a strong growing and expanding interest in many knowledge areas of social and human sciences in the last two decades. The set includes explorations and critique of the scientific and philosophical foundations, as well as theoretical and methodological orientations of complexity to organizational issues. In addition, it contains a large number of articles on practical implications and applications of complexity thinking in important areas of organization studies, such as leadership, organizational development, strategy and innovation. The sets' articles have been selected by renowned editors in the field, with the support of an international advisory board. Zusammenfassung Selected by experts in the field! and with the support of an international advisory board! the articles in this set lay out the philosophical foundations! theoretical orientations! as well as empirical explorations and research into the complex processes of organizing. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME ONE: WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT COMPLEXITY PART ONE: SCIENTIFIC IDEAS AND PHILOSOPHICAL TREATMENTS Time, Structure and Fluctuations - Ilya Prigogine From the Concept of a System to the Paradigm of Complexity - Edgar Morin What Is Complexity? - Murray Gell-Mann Evolving Complexity in Social Science - Peter M. Allen Emergence - Jeffrey Goldstein A Construct amid a Thicket of Conceptual Snares Post-Structuralism, Complexity and Poetics - Michael Dillon Phenomenal Complexity Theory as Informed by Bergson - Hugo Letiche Complexity, Cybernetics and Human Knowing - Lesley Kuhn The Challenge of Complexity - Isabelle Stengers Unfolding the Ethics of Science - In Memoriam Ilya Prigogine Complexity, Deconstruction and Relativism - Paul Cilliers Challenges of Complexity in the 21st Century - Klaus Mainzer An Interdisciplinary Introduction PART TWO: SOCIOLOGICAL TREATMENTS AND CRITICISM Giddens¿ Theory of Structuration - Hans Joas Introductory Remarks on a Sociological Transformation of the Philosophy of Praxis A Poetics of Relational Forms - John Shotter The Sociality of Everyday Social Life The Shifting Concept of the Self - Ian Burkitt Complexity Theory - Michael Agar An Exploration and Overview Based on John Holland¿s Work Present, Past and Future - Michael G. Flaherty and Gary Alan Fine Conjugating ...
