Complexity and Management: Fad or Radical Challenge to Systems Thinking?

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Paradox as invitation to act in problematic change situations (2004, background): “In rejecting the intellectually structured drives towards harmonious unity implicit in the other three options it rejects end-driven rational action and the tendency to reduce complex dynamics to simple ‘either–or’ choices and ‘both–and’ syntheses (Stacey et al., 2001).”
Understanding the Influence of Airport Servicescape on Traveler Dissatisfaction and Misbehavior (2020, background): “…principle), which argues that a set combination of factors (not the net effect of one factor) can describe complex conditions leading to an outcome (Stacey, Griffin, and Shaw 2000), thus acknowledging “that no simple condition is the cause of an outcome of interest” (Wu et al. 2014, p. 1666).”