Managing Emergent Phenomena
Subtitle: Nonlinear Dynamics in Work Organizations
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780805831634
Subjects: Organizational theory & behaviour; Management Science; Industrial & Organizational Psychology; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Psychology, Industrial; Business/Economics; Organizational behavior; Mathematical models; Negotiating; Psychology & Psychiatry / Occupational & Industrial Psychology; Industrial management; Industrial safety
First sentence: Our understanding of social groups and organizations has progressed by gradual increments over the last century and then, suddenly, there was a very different theory-one that emphasizes the footprints of change and the many shapes and sizes that there could be.