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"Barry and Hansen have gathered an impressive array of contributors to speculate where the management and organization field might be headed. The Handbook offers refreshing and proactive insights that confront our assumptions about organizations and challenge us to expand our thinking and inquiry. It it must reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we look at, live in, and act on organizations."—Thomas G. Cummings, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern CaliforniaTen years ago critical theory and postmodernism were considered new and emerging theories in Business and Management. What will be the next new important theories to shape the field? In one edited volume, David Barry and Hans Hansen have commissioned new chapters that will allow readers to stay one step ahead of the latest thinking. Contributors draw on research and practice to introduce ideas that are considered 'fringe' and controversial today, but may be key theoretical contributions tomorrow. Each chapter sets these ideas in their historical context, lays out the key theoretical positions taken by each new approach and makes it clear why these approaches are different to more mainstream concepts. Throughout contributors refer to existing studies that show how these developing themes will change the Business and Management arena.Researchers, teachers and advanced students who are interested in the future of Business and Management scholarship will want to read this Handbook.
Learning about Networks from Terrorists
Learning about Networks from Terrorists
People often comment that the leadership I describe based on living systems doesn't work in ‘the real world’. I assume they are referring to life in their organizations. Yet this is not the real world; rather it is a dangerous fiction that blinds us to current realities. The real world demands that we learn to cope with chaos, that we understand human motivation, and that we adopt strategies and behaviours that lead to order, not more chaos.
In this historic moment, we live caught between a worldview that no longer works and a new one that seems too bizarre to contemplate. To expose this situation, I want to apply the lens of new science to free societies' ...
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