Ralph D Stacey

Managing the Unknowable

Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781555424633
• ISBN-10: 1555424635
• Artikelnr.: 22331100

Autorenporträt

Ralph Douglas Stacey is a British organizational theorist and Professor of Management at Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire, in the UK and one of the pioneers of enquiring into the implications of the natural sciences of complexity for understanding human organisations and their management.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
The Author.
New Mind-Sets for Managing the Future.
The Failure of Conventional Management: Using Orderly Strategies ina
Disorderly World.
Stable Instability: Creating the Far-from-EquillibiumOrganization.
Creativity and Continuous Chaos: Discovering the Undiscovered inComplex
Organizations.
Strategic Thinking and Continuous Contention: Confronting anOpen-Anded
Future.
Strategic Agenda: Deciphering the Patterns in Goals andActions.
Strategic Control: Managing the Boundary Between Plans andChange.
Participation, Heirarchy, and Stability: Finding the MiddleGround.
Steps Toward Managing an Unkowable Future.
Note.
Index.