Coherence in the Midst of Complexity [electronic resource] : Advances in Social Complexity Theory /
Letiche, Hugo.author.
Lissack, Michael.author.
Schultz, Ron.author.
A discussion on the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root. The authors focus on the experience of coherence and how such experiential lessons differ from the establishment and maintenance of categories and labels.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Definitions; Introduction: Miracles and Nasty Surprises; 1 The Failure of Models and Labels and The Success of Experience and Emergence; 2 Two Kinds of Coherence-Ascribed and Emergent; 3 Models, Homologies, and Simulacra; 4 The Ascribed Coherence of Thagard and Weick; 5 Emergence, Coherence, and Business Success; 6 Emergence, Coherence, and Narrative; 7 Affordances and Organization; 8 Homology: SenseMaking Revisited; 9 But Experience is Different; 10 Complexity Tools: The Semiotic Square and Homology; Not a Conclusion: Steps to Implementation
References and Further ReadingWebsite for Ongoing Discussion: http://remedy101.com; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A discussion on the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root. The authors focus on the experience of coherence and how such experiential lessons differ from the establishment and maintenance of categories and labels.
Leadership.
Management.
Organization.
Operations research.
Behavioral economics.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
Management.
Organization.
Operations Research/Decision Theory.
Behavioral/Experimental Economics.