{"product_id":"strategic-management-and-organisational-dynamics-9781292078748","title":"Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Stacey \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Management at the Business School, University of Hertfordshire. He is a supervisor on the innovative Doctor of Management programme at the University of Hertfordshire and the author of a number of books and papers on complexity and organisation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Mowles \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Complexity and Management at the Business School, University of Hertfordshire. He is director of, and supervisor on, the innovative Doctor of Management programme at the University of Hertfordshire and the author of two books and a number of papers on complexity and organisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrief contents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of boxes xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of tables xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 1 Strategic management in perspective: a step in the professionalisation \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eof management 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Thinking about strategy and organisational change: the implicit \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eassumptions distinguishing one theory from another 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 1 Systemic ways of thinking about strategy and organisational \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003edynamics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The origins of systems thinking in the Age of Reason 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Thinking in terms of strategic choice: cybernetic systems, cognitivist \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eand humanistic psychology 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Thinking in terms of organisational learning and knowledge creation: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003esystems dynamics, cognitivist, humanistic and constructivist psychology 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Thinking in terms of organisational psychodynamics: open systems \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eand psychoanalytic perspectives 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Thinking about strategy process from a systemic perspective: using a \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eprocess to control a process 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 A review of systemic ways of thinking about strategy and organisational \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003edynamics: key challenges for alternative ways of thinking 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Extending and challenging the dominant discourse on organisations: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethinking about participation and practice 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2 The challenge of complexity to ways of thinking\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 3 Complex responsive processes as a way of thinking about \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The complexity sciences: the sciences of uncertainty 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Systemic applications of complexity sciences to organisations: restating \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe dominant discourse 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003estrategy and organisational dynamics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Responsive processes thinking: the interplay of intentions 302\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The emergence of organisational strategy in local communicative \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003einteraction: complex responsive processes of conversation 338\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The link between the local communicative interaction of strategising \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eand the population-wide patterns of strategy 362\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The emergence of organisational strategy in local communicative \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003einteraction: complex responsive processes of ideology and power relating 388\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Different modes of articulating patterns of interaction emerging across \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eorganisations: strategy narratives and strategy models 416\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Complex responsive processes of strategising: acting locally on the \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ebasis of global goals, visions, expectations and intentions for the \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘whole’ organisation over the ‘long-term future’ 456\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Complex responsive processes: implications for thinking about \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eorganisational dynamics and strategy 486\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 519\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 545\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pearson Education","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019581522263,"sku":"9781292078748","price":67.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781292078748.jpg?v=1750780695","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/strategic-management-and-organisational-dynamics-9781292078748","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}