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A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organisations: Taking Experience Seriously book cover

1st Edition

A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organisations Taking Experience Seriously

Edited By Douglas Griffin, Ralph Stacey Copyright 2005
224 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge
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Part of the Complexity as the Experience of Organizing series, this book applies complex responsiveness theory to real-life leadership experiences. It features contributions from and details the experience of organizational practitioners, leaders, consultants and managers from various organizations through narrative accounts. It addresses questions such as: How do widespread or global... Read more
Series preface 1 Introduction: researching organizations from a complexity perspective, 2 Experience and method: a complex responsive processes perspective on research in organizations, Editors’ introduction to Chapter 3, 3 Belief, truth and justification: issues of methodology, discourse and the validity of personal narratives Editors’ introduction to Chapter 4, 4 Emerging participative exploration: consultation as research Editors’ introduction to Chapter 5, 5 Letting go, keeping connected and change at the Phoenix Project, Editors’ introduction to Chapter 6, 6 To understand a practice of consulting, Editors’ introduction to Chapter 7, 7 Organizational development in the National Health Service

Biography

Ralph Stacey is Director of the Complexity and Management Centre at the Business School of the University of Hertfordshire and Director of the Doctor of Management programme run by the Centre. He is one of the editors of the Complexity and Emergence in Organizations series, and the editor of five books in this series. Professor Douglas Griffin is Associate Director of the Complexity and Management Centre at the Business School of the University of Hertfordshire and a supervisor on the Doctor of Management programme run by the Centre. He is also an independent consultant. He is one of the editors of the Complexity and Emergence in Organizations series, and the editor of three books in this series.

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