Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics (5th Edition)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 496 pages
• Published by: Prentice Hall
• Edition: 5th Edition March 2, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0273708112
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0273708117
• Book Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
• Weighs: 2 pounds

Product Description
This book argues that in order to succeed in uncertainty and continual change, organizations need to create new perspectives and learn from the chaos within which they operate. This new edition focuses on this radically different approach to strategic management. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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‘I would very much like to use the book in my classes.  The issues are spot on and reflect a refreshing and relevant new perspective on strategy and organisations.

Carl Brønn, The Norwegian University of Life Sciences

 

 

‘Stacey's defining strength is his critical approach which challenges students to make sense of contested knowledge. His passionate interest in the subject is reflected in the dynamic and exciting development of the text and communicated through a remarkably clear writing style.

Steve Hills, Sheffield Hallam University

 

Renowned for its unconventional thinking, Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics continues to be a refreshing alternative for students and lecturers of strategic management specifically looking for ‘something different.  Stacey challenges the conceptual orthodoxy of planned strategy, focusing instead on the influence of more complex and unstable forces in the development of strategy. 

 

Ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate study, this critically detailed account deals with up-to-the minute issues, raising the challenge of complexity within practice and theory.  As such it remains unique amongst strategic management text books.

 

In this fifth edition, Stacey also covers contemporary issues including:

 

• The links between micro and macro-level activities in the organisation
• Focus on the gathering interest in ‘strategy-as-practice
• The treatment of ethics and values in strategic management
• A reflective series of management narratives indicating how strategic thinking processes affect behaviour.

 

Ralph Stacey is Professor of Management at the Business School, University of Hertfordshire.  He is the director of the Complexity and Management Centre at the University of Hertfordshire and author of a number of books and papers on complexity and organisations. 

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics: The Challenge of Complexity (Paperback) There is much new in the latest edition of Ralph Stacey's management text. Of special merit is his challenge to those interested in understanding human organizations as complex adaptive systems to remember that these organizations are comprised of humans, not computer agents or ants. He asks us to be wary of simplistic transfers of complexity principles into the management domain. He then offers the theory of "relationship psychology" as an alternative and explores its implications for understanding the mind and healthy, creative organizational dynamics, putting the human back in the complex adaptive, or as he suggests, responsive, system. Ralph Stacey has done more than any other management theorist to examine the intersection of complexity science and organizational thinking. He has been intelligently, provocative and challenging all along and has helped this intersection advance. You'll always want to stay in touch with what he is saying.