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Louis R. Pondy was a leading management and organizational studies scholar whose work on open systems helped launch and define the future of the field. This book offers an assessment of Pondy's contribution, through critical reflection on what happened to the relationship between conflict theory and "beyond open systems."
Exploring the ways in which Louis R. Pondy theorizes conflict and systems, and how he challenged the status quo paradigms, this book offers a historical analysis on Pondy's work and the relation to contemporary management theory. The author develops a Triple Loop framework, building on Pondy's theories as well as the work of Gregory Batesom, to demonstrate a beyond-open-systems approach and existing single- or double-loop systems.
Demonstrating the value and legacy of Louis R. Pondy, this book will have international appeal to researchers, academics and students across management disciplines and organizational studies, including systems thinking and conflict resolution.
List of contents
FOREWORD: LOUIS RALPH PONDY’S "TEAR" IN MANAGEMENT THOUGHT
PREFACE: PONDY’S JOURNEY FROM "BOUNDED RATIONALITY" TOWARDS "ENTHINKMENT AND EXISTENTIALISM"
PART I - LOUIS RALPH PONDY’S MANAGEMENT THOUGHT 1966-1976
CHAPTER 1 LOUIS RALPH PONDY (1938-1987), A LATE MEMORIAL ADDRESS: GOING BEYOND BOUNDED RATIONALISMS
CHAPTER 2 1967, ASQ PUBLISHES THE WRONG PONDY CONFLICT MODEL, SOUNDLY REJECTED BY PONDY 1966
PART II – PONDY’S MANAGEMENT THOUGHT 1976-1980
CHAPTER 3 1976, BEYOND OPEN SYSTEMS THEORY
CHAPTER 4, 1977, THE SOUND OF THE OTHER HAND CLAPPING
CHAPTER 5 1977, PONDY’S LITTLE WOW MOMENT OF MENTORING CHANGED MY LIFE
CHAPTER 6 1978, LEADERSHIP AS A LANGUAGE GAME
CHAPTER 7 1980, BRINGING MIND BACK INTO MANAGEMENT THOUGHT
PART III- PONDY’S MANAGEMENT THOUGHT 1980-1986
CHAPTER 8 1983, UNION OF RATIONALITY AND INTUITION: AN EXISTENTIAL TURN
CHAPTER 9 PONDY AND HUFF’S 1986 PROCESS OF EMERGENT POLICY REFRAMING
CHAPTER 10 PONDY’S 1986 REFLECTIONS ON CONFLICT
CHAPTER 11 1987, SYMBOLS AND MYTHS IN MANAGEMENT THOUGHT
CHAPTER 12 EPILOGUE: WHAT IS PONDY’S CONTRIBUTION TO MANAGEMENT THOUGHT? ENTHINKMENT!
PART IV – AFTER PONDY: ON THE ROAD TO EXISTENTIALISM
CHAPTER 13 IMPLICATIONS OF ENTHINKMENT TO CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT THOUGHT
CHAPTER 14: BEYOND QUANTUM STORYTELLING LIMITS OF ENTHINKMENT AND ENACTMENT DUALITY
CHAPTER 15: FULL CIRCLE FROM RATIONALISM TO EXISTENTIALISM
References
Index
About the author
David M. Boje is Professor Emeritus in Management at New Mexico State University, and Professor at Aalborg University Business School, Denmark.
Rohny Saylors is Assistant Professor in entrepreneurship at Washington State University.
Summary
This book offers an assessment of Pondy’s contribution, through critical reflection on what happened to the relationship between conflict theory and ‘beyond open systems’.
