Coherence in the Midst of Complexity: Advances in Social Complexity Theory

by Hugo Letiche and Michael Lissack

Book Overview

Complexity and emergence (the appearance and impact of the new) can be the bane of managers and their organizations. Both complexity and emergence threaten to upset adherence to predefined categories, which supposedly allows for efficiency. Indeed, traditional management thinking focuses on a retrospective coherence where ideas and events are assigned to categories, the categories are labeled, and outliers are treated as statistical deviants. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023033850X
• ISBN13: 9780230338500
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"