Coherence in the midst of complexity [electronic resource] : advances in social complexity theory / Hugo Letiche and Michael Lissack with Ron Schultz.
Complexity and emergence (the appearance and impact of the new) can be the bane of managers and their organizations. Both complexity and emergence threaten to upset adherence to predefined categories, which supposedly allows for efficiency. Indeed, traditional management thinking focuses on a retros...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction€
- Miracles and Nasty Surprises€
- The Failure of Models & Labels; the Success of Experience & Emergence€
- Two Kinds of Coherence ₆ Ascribed and Emergent€€
- Models, Homologies & Simulacra€
- The Ascribed Coherence of Thagard and Weick€€
- Coherence and Business Success€
- Emergence, Coherence & Narrative€
- Affordances and Organization
- Homology: Sense-Making Revisited€
- But Experience is Different€
- Complexity Tools: the Semiotic Square & Homology€€
- Steps to Implementation.
- Introduction: miracles and nasty surprises
- The failure of models and labels and the success of experience and emergence
- Two kinds of coherence: ascribed and emergent
- Models, homologies, and simulacra
- The ascribed coherence of Thagard and Weick
- Emergence, coherence, and business success
- Emergence, coherence and narrative
- Affordances and organization
- Homology: sense-making revisited
- But experience is different
- Complexity tools: the semiotic square ad homology
- Not a conclusion: steps to implementation.