The chaos frontier : creative strategic control for business /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stacey, Ralph D.
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth Heinemann, 1991.
Subjects:	Industrial management. Organizational behavior. Strategic planning. Gestion d'entreprise. Comportement organisationnel. Planification stratégique. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industrial Management. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management Science. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Organizational Behavior. Industrial management Organizational behavior Strategic planning Strategisches Management Unternehmensmodell Administracao. Business enterprise > Management Business > Management Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction. pt. 1: The concerns of dynamic management. 2. Goals, behaviour and change
3. Relationship between control form and change situation
4. The mechanisms driving business development. pt. 2: Today's most prominent management models. 5. Rational planning, entrepreneurial enthusiasm and political power
6. Today's models: a limited understanding of management dynamics. pt. 3: Scientific chaos and dynamic management. 7. What scientific chaos means for managers
8. Implications of chaos for controlling and developing a business
9. Strategic 'control' is organizational learning
10. Strategic 'control' of spontaneous political choice
11. Strategic 'control' of creative exploration. pt. 4: Dynamic management choice and action. 12. Chaos: a different perspective for action
13. Management intervention and strategic 'control'
App. A. Scientific chaos: a new way of thinking about dynamics
App. B. The simple mathematics and exciting geometry of chaos
App. C. Order from chaos
App. D. The language of chaos: a glossary of terms.