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Complexity theory and the organization: beyond the metaphor

✍ Scribed by Roger Lewin; Teresa Parker; Birute Regine

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
85 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
1076-2787

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✦ Synopsis

Birute Regine is a visiting scholar at Wellesley College, MA, where she is researching a relational approach to the workplace. Roger Lewin, an Associate of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, is author of Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos. Together, Regine and Lewin are writing a book titled The Soul at Work: Complexity Theory and Business, as if People Matter, to be published by Simon and Schuster, January 1999. Teresa Parker leads a research team studying business applications of complexity at the Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation. Noting that many advances of CAS in business have been made in manufacturing, she has a special interest in identifying implications for the overriding concerns of managementgrowth and change.

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