The Biology of Business
Subtitle: Decoding the Natural Laws of Enterprise (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: October 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780787943240
Subjects: Management & management techniques; Management Science; Organization Theory; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Organizational change; Negotiating; Management - General; Business & Economics / Management Science; Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior; Business & Economics-Management - General; Business & Economics-Negotiating; Complex organizations; Evolutionary economics
First sentence: This book is for those who are responsible for organizations that have become so interconnected, so volatile, and so complex that they have become unmanageable by conventional means.
Description: "As organizations become more and more interconnected, volatile, and complex, how can managers possibly anticipate, much less control, the myriad factors that determine their company's success? A new approach is called for and its principles lie in the science of complex adaptive systems, or CAS.".

"Here, John Clippinger and nine extraordinary contributors present the seven basics of CAS theory and show how to apply them to real-world business challenges including knowledge management, brand creation, market development, product innovation, and organizational change."--BOOK JACKET.