7 Complexity Ideas in Strategy and Organizational Dynamics
Implications and Applications for Organizational Practice
During the three decades that have passed since the time when complexity theories were first introduced in organizational studies, publications on central themes in organizations have broadly fallen into four categories. Those in the first category describe phenomena from chaos and complexity research in the natural sciences, and then argue that qualitative insights are important for understanding how organizations and societies evolve (e.g. Stacey, 1995; Campbell-Hunt, 2007; Ferguson, 2010). Publications in the second category argue that the insights from chaos and complexity research ...
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