Emergence: Complexity & Organization 2005 Annual

by David Snowden, Jeffrey A. Goldstein, Peter Allen, et al.

Book Overview

Organizations of all kinds struggle to understand, adapt, respond and manipulate changing conditions in their internal and external environments. Approaches based on the causal, linear logic of mechanistic sciences and engineering continue to play an important role, given people's ability to create order. But such approaches are valid only within carefully circumscribed boundaries. They become counterproductive when the same organizations display...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976681471
• ISBN13: 9780976681472
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Isce Publishing
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"