Dynamics of Change

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Author_Francis Stickland
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Business Process
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Cellular Automata
Change Metaphors
Change Phenomena
Chaotic Attractor
Checkland's Soft Systems Methodology
Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology
complexity science
Constructive Resistance
Corporate Balanced Scorecard
cross-disciplinary analysis
dissipative
Dissipative Structures
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GST Approach
Human Relations View
Knowledge Acquisition
Large Scale Change Programmes
literature
mechanics
Metastable Outcomes
order
Order Phase Transitions
organisational
Organisational Change Literature
Organisational Change Theory
organisational transformation frameworks
phase transitions
phenomena
Physical Phase Transitions
Powerful Analytical Frame
quantum
Reflex Response
resistance to change
scientific management theory
Separate Attractors
Strategic Assumption Surfacing
structures
Subject Domains
systems thinking
theorists
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Vice Versa

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415184168
  • Weight: 410g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Oct 1998
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Giving a fascinating insight into the world of change and transition, this radical book, aimed at both organizational change practitioners and academics, tackles the fundamental question ‘what is change?’ The answers it seeks will significantly improve attempts to manage change more effectively.

Innovative and absorbing, it charts a journey through a range of subjects including complexity science, nuclear physics, climatology, chemistry and chaos theory examining the change phenomena and the lessons it has to offer organizational and system thinkers. Key features include:

* a review of the organisational change literature
* an introduction to systems thinking
* a change framework built up from key change building blocks
* examples of change dynamics from the natural and physical sciences, and how they apply to our understanding of change within organisations
* numerous summary tables and illustrative graphics

This book, the first devoted entirely to exploring what change is as a phenomenon, has a uniquely rigorous scientific approach. It will be a valuable resource for students and professionals alike in the field of business and organizational change.

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