Research Catalog

Title

A complexity perspective on researching organizations : taking experience seriously / edited by Ralph Stacey and Douglas Griffin.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Stacey, Ralph D.
• Griffin, Douglas, 1946-

Description

xii, 206 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

In this title complex responsiveness theory is applied to real-life experiences. Exploring the perspective of complex responsive programmes, the contributors examine how this assists them in making sense of their experience and how this awareness then leads to their development.

Series Statement

Complexity as the experience of organizing

Uniform Title

Complexity as the experience of organizing.

Subject

• Complex organizations > Research > Methodology
• Management > Research > Methodology
• Participant observation
• 85.03 methods and techiques of business administration and organization science
• Organisatieonderzoek
• Complexiteit
• Methodologie
• Participerend onderzoek

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : researching organizations from a complexity perspective / Ralph Stacey and Douglas Griffin -- Experience and method : a complex responsive processes perspective on research in organizations / Ralph Stacey and Douglas Griffin -- Belief, truth, and justification : issues of methodology / Richard Williams -- Emerging participative exploration : consultation as research / Bjørner Christensen -- Letting go, keeping connected, and change at the Phoenix Project / Mary O'Flynn -- To understand a practice of consulting / Ian Johnson -- Organizational development in the National Health Service / Nicholas Sarra.

ISBN

• 0415351308
• 9780415351300
• 0415351316
• 9780415351317
• 9780203696941
• 0203696948

LCCN

2004026088

OCLC

• ocm56924714
• 56924714
• SCSB-8803671

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library