Research Catalog

Title

Managing complexity in organizations : a view in many directions / edited by Michael R. Lissack and Hugh P. Gunz.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Quorum, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Lissack, Michael.
• Gunz, Hugh.

Description

vi, 417 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Strategic planning > Congresses
• Organization > Congresses
• Project management > Congresses
• Technological complexity > Congresses

Note

• "A collection of work prepared for the two 1998 gatherings of the Managing the Complex conference ... Complex-M and Managing the Complex took place ... in Toronto in April and in Boston in October"--P. [1].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-403) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction / Michael R. Lissack and Hugh P. Gunz -- Pt. I. Overview. 2. Complexity and Management: It Is More than Jargon / Michael R. Lissack. 3. Complexity - More than a Fad? / Tom Petzinger. 4. Complexity, Computational Ability, and the Corporation of the Future / Arnold J. Wytenburg -- Pt. II. Strategy. 5. Strategy as Design: A Fitness Landscape Framework / Steve Maguire. 6. Markets in Phase Transition / Ken Baskin. 7. The Future of Strategy: The Role of the New Sciences / Robin Wood -- Pt. III. Creativity and Communication. 8. Images or Reality? Metaphors, Memes, and Management / If Price. 9. Chaos, Communication, and Cultural Change: Beyond the Management of Organization / Pekka Aula. 10. The Architecture of Strategic Thought: A Neuronal Network Approach / Harold E. Klein. 11. Strategic Management System Enhancement and the Concept of Strong Influence Strings / Adam J. Koch -- Pt. IV. Applications.
• 12. Chaos Theory and Project Management: A Perspective on Managing the Complex Project / Janet Bardyn and Donna Fitzgerald. 13. Complexity, IT, and the Interprise / Mark W. McElroy. 14. Adaptive Corporations / Mark White. 15. Complexity in the Dynamics of Organizational Founding and Failure / Joel A. C. Baum and Brian S. Silverman. 16. Evaluating Performance in a Complex, Adaptive System (CAS) / Glenda H. Eoyang and Thomas H. Berkas. 17. Complexity Metaphors and the Process of Small Business Foresighting / Ted Fuller. 18. Gorbachev as CEO Roadkill: Lessons for the Modern Corporation from the Soviet Foreign Policy Establishment's Failure to Manage Complexity / Robert M. Cutler. 19. The Emergence of Technological Fields / Raghu Garud, Peter Karnoe and E. Andres Garcia. 20. An Almost Last Word / Michael R. Lissack -- Concluding Remarks / Michael R. Lissack and Hugh P. Gunz.

ISBN

1567202853 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99013621

OCLC

ocm40668284

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Columbia University Libraries