Complexity, Management and the Dynamics of Change Challenges for practice
von: Elizabeth McMillan
Routledge, 2008
ISBN:
Sprache: Englisch
256 Seiten, Download: 2867 KB
Format: PDF, auch als Online-Lesen
| Contents | 8 | ||
| Illustrations | 10 | ||
| Preface | 12 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 13 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 14 | ||
| 2 The clockwork manager – alive and well? | 27 | ||
| 3 Complexity science: understanding the science | 58 | ||
| 4 Change and the dynamics of change: thinking differently | 87 | ||
| 5 Complexity in practice: doing things differently | 114 | ||
| 6 Complexity in action: a case study of the Open University | 157 | ||
| 7 Self-organizing change dynamics | 185 | ||
| 8 Essential principles for introducing a complexity-based change process | 195 | ||
| 9 Innovation and changing: Models for experimentation and adaptation | 205 | ||
| 10 New perspectives, opportunities for innovation | 231 | ||
| Appendix 1 | 242 | ||
| Appendix 2 | 243 | ||
| Appendix 3 | 245 | ||
| Bibliography | 247 | ||
| Index | 252 |