Download or read book Towards an Understanding of Elusive Organizational Phenomena Organizations as Complex Adaptive Systems written by Bitar, Jad and published by Montréal : HEC Montréal, Chaire de management stratégique international Walter-J.-Somers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organizations and Complex Adaptive Systems written by Mahsa Fidanboy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-22 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations and Complex Adaptive Systems explains complexity theory within the organizational studies and discusses the applicability of complex adaptive systems principles for intraorganizational and interorganizational levels. Complex adaptive systems and complexity theory have been studied in many different fields of science. When studying the application of complex adaptive systems within social sciences, not many are seen in real terms in contrary to the myriads of theories and propositions available. The complex adaptive systems perspective is presented in quantitative terms in natural sciences, but a quantitative approach has not been used within social sciences a lot comparatively. This book links the basics of complex adaptive systems to social sciences, focusing on organizational studies and covering interorganizational, organizational, and individual levels. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to researchers, academics, managers, and students in the fields of management, organizational theory and behavior, and strategic management.
Download or read book Organizational Survival in the New World written by Alex Bennet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bennets offer a new theory of the firm, describing a next-generation organization designed to exhibit flexibility and agility in order to meet the challenges of increasing change, uncertainty, and complexity that characterize the competitive environment.
Download or read book Facilitating Organization Change written by Edwin E. Olson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-02-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Facilitating Organization Change" hilft Ihnen, die Dynamik des Wandels in einem komplexen System zu verstehen und diese Kräfte gezielt zu nutzen. Dieses Buch nennt neue Perspektiven, Methoden und Techniken zur Wiederbelebung von Unternehmen. Es erläutert auch die Muster die das Unternehmensverhalten steuern und zeigt, wie man sich diese Einsichten zunutze macht, um den Unternehmenswandel effektiver voranzutreiben.
Download or read book Managing Organizational Complexity written by Kurt A. Richardson and published by IAP. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Emergent Phenomena written by Stephen J. Guastello and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaos, catastrophe, self-organization, and complexity theories (nonlinear dynamics) now have practical and measurable roles in the functioning of work organizations. Managing Emergent Phenomena begins by describing how the concept of an organization has changed from a bureaucracy, to a humanistic and organic system, to a complex adaptive system. The dynamics concepts are then explained along with the most recent research methods for analyzing real data. Applications include: work motivation, personnel selection and turnover, creative thinking by individuals and groups, the development of social networks, coordination in work groups, the emergence of leaders, work performance in organizational hierarchies, economic problems that are relevant to organizations, techniques for predicting the future, and emergency management. Each application begins with a tight summary of standard thinking on a subject, followed by the new insights that are afforded by nonlinear dynamics and the empirical data supporting those ideas. Unusual concepts are also encountered, such as the organizational unconscious, collective intelligence, and the revolt of the slaved variables. The net results are a new perspective on what is really important in organizational life, original insights on familiar experiences, and some clear signposts for the next generation of nonlinear social scientists.
Download or read book The Organization as a Complex Adaptive System written by Charles S. Englehardt and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complexity and Creativity in Organizations written by Ralph D. Stacey and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining insights from the new science of complexity with insights from psychoanalysis, Stacey posits that repressing the anxiety caused by the unstable, ever-changing nature of today's business world also represses the creative impulses - the "spaces for novelty" - that allow members of a workforce to produce their best work. Using the science of complexity as a starting point, he pulls together many insights into behavior and organizational functioning that currently lie at the edges of research and practice. This book invites people to explore what the new science might mean for understanding life in organizations, and shows how it can be used as a framework for understanding the processes that produce emergence rather than intentional strategies. Stacey presents an entirely new perspective on what it means for an organization to learn.
Download or read book From Nash to Red Queen and Vice Versa written by Kijung Kim and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fostering Innovation Through Complex Adaptive Systems Theory written by Rohan Hakimi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During these times of rapid change many complex human systems struggle to be innovative and adaptive and as a result are under threat of decay and even collapse. Complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory describes the phenomena of adaptation and describes innovation as a central component of this process. The literature on CAS theory was explored in this study to better understand the processes of innovation and adaptation and their relationship to each other. A number of characteristics and dynamics (CDs) that describe the operation of a CAS were discovered and synthesized into a framework for innovation. Five of these CDs were identified as foundational to the process of adaptation, namely: open boundaries, diversity, distributed control, cyclical development and feedback. In this study, the author proposes that by fostering the foundational CDs a complex system can become more adaptive. The CAS framework was applied to an engineering organization in two case studies. In the first case study hierarchical process mapping was tested as a tool to analyze the organization in light of the framework. In this case study, nine areas where the foundational CDs could be strengthened to increase the adaptive capacity of the organization were identified. Of primary concern to the organization was the need to foster open boundaries. This would ensure a greater flow of information and knowledge into the organization and between its departments, one means of strengthening the potential for adaptation and innovation. In the second case study, the framework was used to guide an innovation process to bring about improvements to a polymer feed system, one of the organization's products. An open, iterative approach was used to gather practical knowledge for product development. End-users were engaged in two iterations of semi-structured interviews. In the first iteration, nine ideas for technical improvement were identified, four of which were implemented immediately. Of the remaining ideas, the use of preheated water for polymer activation was identified as the most impactful. This idea was pursued further in the second iteration of interviews. Data indicated an estimated reduction of $4000 in monthly operating costs as a result. The innovation approach proved effective in this case study and was recommended to the organization for further use in product development. In this study, the CAS framework proved useful as a starting point to strengthen capacity for innovation and adaptation in the organization. Further effort to develop the foundational CDs is recommended to strengthen the organization and further test the effectiveness of the framework.
Download or read book The Effective Organization written by Dennis Tafoya and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project Overview: What the Bookâe(tm)s About "It may not be possible to predict when an organization will confront an operation-challenging event but it is possible to predict the organization's capacity to manage the event when it emerges." (Introduction to Chapter Nine) Performance is the reason why organizations exist. Through performance organizations meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders as defined by their mission, goals and objectives. This is true for all organizations. If a retailer won't stock goods a customer wants, the customer will shop elsewhere. If a religious organization does not meet the needs of its followers, they leave. If a cult doesn't meet the needs of its memberships they seek their goal fulfillment elsewhere. If a manufacturing center can't produce goods that meet customer standards, the customer will reject it. Complexity theory, a tool used to examine the nature of dynamic systems like organizations, can contribute to our understanding of organizations and ways to improve their performance. The models and material outlined in the book illustrate ways competency and organizational programs, processes and procedures are used to manage emerging risks, threats and vulnerabilities that challenge today's organizations. Collectively this information enables the identification of individual organization profiles as a way to advance our understanding of an important theory, complexity, in an applied setting -- organizations. Unique typologies describing organizations (four types), events that effect organizations (six types) and the fundamental structure for organizations are presented to enable the forecasting of an organization's capacity to manage different events as they emerge and how behavior organizes around these events. Academicians studying organizations and practitioners interested in improving them can use this information to facilitate baseline, descriptive thinking and analysis or more sophisticated examinations aimed at understanding the dynamic nature of organizations as fully functioning systems. At the heart of the effort is the examination of what it takes to get the performance needed to achieve a vision or mission and why, despite planning, training and evaluation, few organizations can guarantee or maintain desired levels of performance when faced with events, routine to extreme, that shape their existence. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding how knowledge, evaluation, information and, communication management practices need to be tailored to fit particular organizations rather than treated as a "one size fits all" approach. These are not limited, theoretical discussions but are presented as ways to efficiently talk about an individual organization's profile or competencies within a class of, or in contrast to, other organizations.
Download or read book The Edge of Organization written by Russ Marion and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999-01-14 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Russ Marion discusses formal and social organizations from the perspectives of chaos and complexity theories. The book aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the new sciences of chaos and complexity.
Download or read book Organizations as Complex Systems written by Maurice Yolles and published by Information Age Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing the Complex is an ambitious title - and it would be an audacious one if we were not to begin with a frank admission: to date few to none of us have a skill set which includes managing the complex. We try various things, we write about others, and we wonder about still others. When a tool, perspective, or technique comes along which seems to evoke success, we emulate it probe it and recoil at the all too often admission that it was situation and context which afforded success its opportunity, and not some quality intrinsic to the tool perspective or technique. Indeed, if the study of complexity has done anything for managers, and for those who espouse managerial theory, it is in providing a 'scientific foundation' for the notion that context matters. Those who preach abstract ideas have then to reconcile themselves to the notion that situation and embodiment matters. Those who believe in strong causality and determinism are left to wrestle with the role of chance, uncertainty, and chaos. Those who prefer to argue that men move history are confronted with the role of environment and affordances, while those who argue the reverse are left to contend with charisma, irrationality of crowds, and the strange qualities we know as emotions. A series on complex systems has less ambitious goals to contend with than this. Such a series can deal with classifications, and categories, and speak of 'noise' as if it were not the central focus of the problem. Managing the complex is about managing 'noise' or perhaps we should say it is about 'dealing with' 'accepting' 'making room for' and 'learning from' 'noise'. The articles in this volume and in volumes to come will each be considered as 'noise' by some and as 'gems' by others, but we hope that practicing managers and academics alike will find plenty of fuel to drive their personal explorations into understanding, and perhaps even managing, the complex.
Download or read book A Complex Adaptive Systems Methodology for Organizational Assessment written by Herbert Ernest Rau and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Results from the proposed methodology suggests that a different set of organizational attributes, when compared to currently existing assessment methodologies, are detected in the process of investigating an organization from a complex adaptive system perspective. the new insights do not replace knowledge that is acquired from the application of existing assessment methodologies, but rather augments insight acquired from these current methodologies.
Download or read book Models of Complex Adaptive Systems in Strategy and Organization Research written by Oliver Baumann and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of new theory is often spurred by novel techniques that provide better answers to existing questions, or that allow asking new ones. In the field of strategy and organization science, models of complex adaptive systems have renewed theoretical work on a fundamental question: how organizations can adapt effectively to their environments. This article has three objectives: (1) to highlight some areas where models of organizations as complex adaptive systems have made substantial contributions: the search for solutions to sets of interdependent choices, the challenge of balancing processes of exploration and exploitation, and the organization of imperfect decision makers; (2) to point to several challenges and tradeoffs, which can limit the explanatory power and eventual impact of the modeling enterprise; and (3) to sketch out possible future directions of research that would do further justice to the notion of organizations as complex adaptive systems.
Download or read book Electronic Government written by Marijn Janssen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference, EGOV 2011, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in August/September 2011. The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on foundations, acceptance and diffusion, governance, openess and institutions, architecture, security and interoperability, transformation, values and change.
Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
