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

By R. Stacey, D. Griffin, P. Shaw. 2002

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• What contribution can insights from the complexity sciences make to the theory and practice of development management (2008, background): “Another group of authors (Stacey et al., 2000; Stacey, 2007) deny a separation between subjective and objective experience of human action and draw attention to the inherently paradoxical and transformative nature of everyday experience.”
• COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS (2005, unknown): “The CAS model, like diffusion theory, works well when interrelationships among the members of a system are strong and dense, while allowing for action at the level of individual units ( Stacey, Griffin and Shaw, 2000 ).”
• Learning as an activity of interdependent people (2003, unknown): “Causality here takes a rationalist form (Stacey at al, 2000).”
• The impact of supply chain complexity on manufacturing plant performance (2009, background): “, Stewart, 2002), and has been incorporated in the organizational theory literature (e.g., Stacey, 1996; Stacey et al., 2000).”
• 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).”
• The Complex Resource-Based View: Implications for Theory and Practice in Strategic Human Resource Management (2004, background): “The notion of self-organization in the complexity frame asks us to think of an organization in a less control-oriented manner and acknowledges that an organization’s social system is constructed out of the interplay among the intentions, choices, and actions of all organizational actors ( Stacey et ”
• Science as Systemic Intervention: Some Implications of Systems Thinking and Complexity for the Philosophy of Science (2003, background): “These are dealt with in Ulrich (1983), Midgley et al (1998) and Midgley (2000).”
• Kurt Lewin and complexity theories: back to the future? (2004, background): “…a number of different but related theories have emerged, the key ones being chaos theory (Lorenz, 1979,1993; Bechtold, 1997; Haigh, 2002), dissipative structures theory (Prigogine and Stengers, 1984; Prigogine, 1997), and the theory of complex adaptive systems (Goodwin, 1994; Stacey et al, 2002).”
• On the Systems Engineering and Management of Systems of Systems and Federations of Systems (2001, background): “It is generally understood that these extensively distributed systems both developmentally and operationally exhibit the behaviors of complex adaptive systems [CAS] (Axelrod & Cohen, 1999; Czerwinski, 1999; Kelly & Allison, 1999; Stacey, Griffin, & Shaw, 2000 ).”