The Chaos Frontier

Author : Ralph D. Stacey
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483164021

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The Chaos Frontier by Ralph D. Stacey Pdf

The Chaos Frontier: Creative Strategic Control for Business presents the effective ways of managing and controlling innovative organizations in chaotic times. This book discusses the theories of chaos and self-organization developed by mathematicians, biologists, chemists, and physicists. Organized into four parts encompassing 13 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the scientific sense of chaos as those systems driven by certain types of perfectly orderly laws capable of behaving in a manner that is random and therefore inherently unpredictable over the long term. This text then examines the key elements that managers need to incorporate into a dynamic model of managing if they are to design effective actions in a turbulent business world. Other chapters consider organizational effectiveness and the ability to sustain competitive capability. The final chapter deals with creative interaction between a business and the other organizations and people that are its environment. This book is a valuable resource for managers.

Author : Ralph D. Stacey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1391283391

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The Chaos Frontier by Ralph D. Stacey Pdf

Author : Plamen Ch. Ivanov,Andras Eke,Olga Sosnovtseva
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889714353

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The New Frontier of Network Physiology: From Temporal Dynamics to the Synchronization and Principles of Integration in Networks of Physiological Systems by Plamen Ch. Ivanov,Andras Eke,Olga Sosnovtseva Pdf

Author : Adam Spry
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438468839

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Our War Paint Is Writers' Ink by Adam Spry Pdf

Explores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American writers, showing how literature has long been an important venue for debates over settler colonial policy and indigenous rights. For the Anishinaabeg—the indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes—literary writing has long been an important means of asserting their continued existence as a nation, with its own culture, history, and sovereignty. At the same time, literature has also offered American writers a way to make the Anishinaabe Nation disappear, often by relegating it to a distant past. In this book, Adam Spry puts these two traditions in conversation with one another, showing how novels, poetry, and drama have been the ground upon which Anishinaabeg and Americans have clashed as representatives of two nations contentiously occupying the same land. Focusing on moments of contact, appropriation, and exchange, Spry examines a diverse range of texts in order to reveal a complex historical network of Native and non-Native writers who read and adapted each other’s work across the boundaries of nation, culture, and time. By reconceiving the relationship between the United States and the Anishinaabeg as one of transnational exchange, Our War Paint Is Writers’ Ink offers a new methodology for the study of Native American literatures, capable of addressing a long history of mutual cultural influence while simultaneously arguing for the legitimacy, and continued necessity, of indigenous nationhood. In addition, the author reexamines several critical assumptions—about authenticity, identity, and nationhood itself—that have become common wisdom in both Native American and US literary studies. Adam Spry is Assistant Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College.

Author : Joseph Homme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594330603

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Cures and Chaos by Joseph Homme Pdf

Dr. Vincent Hume was a charismatic physician, gifted with legendary talents for healing the sick. But there was a mysterious component to his personality, an element of the streets that ran counter to his pedestal position in the frontier Alaska community he served. Over the course of a decade, the origins of his street smarts, combined with a progressive illness and tragic personal events, conspired in his undoing. It was an excruciating public downfall of a respected surgeon, husband, father, friend, and neighbor; a downfall that ignited a public uproar that threatened the very fabric of the small, close knit community.

Author : Ruth Finnegan,Robin Horton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781725238466

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Modes of Thought in Western and Non-Western Societies by Ruth Finnegan,Robin Horton Pdf

Is there a basic difference in thinking between Western and non-Western societies? This long-debated yet highly topical problem forms the central question to which distinguished contributors in the fields of psychology, linguistics, history, and sociology and, more particularly, of social anthropology and philosophy, address themselves in this interdisciplinary collec­tion. They are: Barry Barnes, Benjamin N. Colby and Michael Cole, Ruth Finnegan, Ernest Gellner, Robin Horton, J. M. Ita, Hilary Jenkins, Steven Lukes, Nobuhiro Nagashima, S. J. Tambiah, W. H. Whiteley, and Sybil Wolfram. The central ideas of this classic work are reformulated and refined in the various contributions with different possible dichotomies discussed such as: 'traditional/modern', 'industrial/non­ industrial', or 'scientific/non-scientific', and 'thinking,' analyzed in terms of its thought processes, content, logic or social background. The material in the book, which is dedicated to Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard, falls within the general area of the comparative sociology of knowledge, and will thus particularly interest philosophers, social anthropologists, and sociologists. The volume is however conceived in an interdisciplinary spirit and will be of interest to anyone seriously concerned to examine the nature of thinking in our own and other societies.

Author : Robert Macintosh,Donald Maclean,Ralph Stacey,Douglas Griffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134527199

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Complexity and Organization by Robert Macintosh,Donald Maclean,Ralph Stacey,Douglas Griffin Pdf

In the past decade, complexity-based thinking has exerted an increasing, yet somewhat controversial authority over management theory and practice. This has in some part been due to the influence of a number of high-profile articles and the not inconsiderable hype which has accompanied them. Another feature of the subject’s development has been the diversity of the origins of the thinking and the claims which have been made for it in terms of managerial and organizational implications. Complexity and Organization is the first text to bring this thinking together, presenting some of the most influential writing in the field, showing how the subject has developed and how it continues to influence managerial thinking. Seminal contributions to the field have been brought together in a single accessible volume, allowing readers to access what might otherwise appear a very diverse body of literature. Moreover, the editors, who represent some of the leading thinkers and writers in this field, have combined these readings with a unique commentary, indicating not only the importance of the papers but teasing out the subtle but significant differences and similarities between them. These commentaries take the form of a discussion between the editors, debating the contribution that each paper has made to the field and the influence it has had on management thinking.

Author : Robert Fitzgerald,Chris Rowley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135303662

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Managed in Hong Kong by Robert Fitzgerald,Chris Rowley Pdf

Hong Kong faces a new, or renewed, set of challenges linked to the up-grading of human resources, shifts in industrial structure, and emerging market demands. The contributors examine and analyse aspects of business and management in Hong Kong.

Author : James Belich
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0824825179

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Making Peoples by James Belich Pdf

Now in paper This immensely readable book, full of drama and humor as well as scholarship, is a watershed in the writing of New Zealand history. In making many new assertions and challenging many historical myths, it seeks to reinterpret our approach to the past. Given New Zealand's small population, short history, and great isolation, the history of the archipelago has been saddled with a reputation for mundanity. According to James Belich, however, it is just these characteristics that make New Zealand "a historian's paradise: a laboratory whose isolation, size, and recency is an advantage, in which the grand themes of world history are often played out more rapidly, more separately, and therefore more discernably, than elsewhere." The first of two planned volumes, Making Peoples begins with the Polynesian settlement and its development into the Maori tribes in the eleventh century. It traces the great encounter between independent Maoridom and expanding Europe from 1642 to 1916, including the foundation of the Pakeha, the neo-Europeans of New Zealand, between the 1830s and the 1880s. It describes the forging of a neo-Polynesia and a neo-Britain and the traumatic interaction between them. The author carefully examines the myths and realities that drove the colonialization process and suggests a new "living" version of one of the most critical and controversial documents in New Zealand's history, the Treaty of Waitangi, frequently descibed as New Zealand's Magna Carta. The construction of peoples, Maori and Pakeha, is a recurring theme: the response of each to the great shift from extractive to sustainable economics; their relationship with their Hawaikis, or ancestors, with each other, and with myth. Essential reading for anyone interested in New Zealand history and in the history of new societies in general.

Author : Ryan Kirk
Publisher : Waterstone Media
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781953692214

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Frontier's End by Ryan Kirk Pdf

The beginning of the end... After the events in Chesterton, the manhunt for Tomas is more intense than ever before. Marshals, knights, and armies comb the frontier seeking any trace of the most wanted fugitive in the country. While Tomas flees, the church makes it's long-awaited moves. Rumors of a powerful weapon spread across the frontier faster than Tomas' wanted posters. Running out of options and time, Tomas seeks aid in a country that is increasingly hostile, not just toward him, but to all hosts. Little does he know that his quest for allies will uncover secrets whose answers he has been seeking for years. The threads of fate gather tightly around Tomas as he prepares to make his final stand against the church. But as he nears the end of his war, he begins to understand what victory might cost him. And the price might just be too terrible to pay.

Author : Kelly F. Himmel
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0890968675

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The Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas by Kelly F. Himmel Pdf

Chronicles the conquest of the Karankawas and Tonkawas Indians by white settlers in nineteenth-century Texas.

Author : Yvonne Griggs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408144008

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Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's King Lear by Yvonne Griggs Pdf

This close study of film adaptations of King Lear looks at several different versions (mainstream, art-house and cinematic `offshoots') and discusses: the literary text in its historical context, key themes and dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for screen and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original text. There are many references to the literary text and screenplays and the book also features quotations from directors and critics. There is plenty of discursive material here to support student work on both film and literature courses.

Author : Eileen Smith
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415141390

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Integrity and Change by Eileen Smith Pdf

Positive and constructive suggestions for ways of coping with the increasing pressures of change faced by those working in the caring professions, since the application of market values to public sector institutions over the last ten years.

Author : Jean-Alain Heraud,Fiona Kerr,Thierry Burger-Helmchen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848219571

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Creative Management of Complex Systems by Jean-Alain Heraud,Fiona Kerr,Thierry Burger-Helmchen Pdf

This book is a general presentation of complex systems, examined from the point of view of management. There is no standard formula to govern such systems, nor to effectively understand and respond to them. The interdisciplinary theory of self-organization is teeming with examples of living systems that can reorganize at a higher level of complexity when confronted with an external challenge of a certain magnitude. Modern businesses, considered as complex systems, ideally know how to flexibly and resiliently adapt to their environment, and also how to prepare for change via self-organization. Understanding sources of potential crisis is essential for leaders, though not all crises are necessarily bad news, as creative firms know how to respond to challenges through innovation: new products and markets, organizational learning for collective intelligence, and more.

Author : John Kew,John Stredwick
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749482701

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Business Environment by John Kew,John Stredwick Pdf

A solid understanding of the social, economic and legal environment in which a business operates is crucial to developing a successful business strategy. With a unique balance between theory and practice, Business Environment is a broad ranging and easy to use guide that looks at how factors such as the world economy, government policy, regulation and demography, and social trends, affect day-to-day strategy and decision making in practice. The text is ideal for students taking undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the Business Environment or Business Context areas of an HR or business degree, and also caters for students studying the CIPD Leadership and Management module 'Managing in a Strategic Business Context'. This fully updated 2nd edition includes new content addressing the needs of migrant workers, further international case studies and real-world examples, and lots of new research from the CIPD and elsewhere. Online, you will find a comprehensive tutor and student support site to complement the practical material within the text. Packed with engaging features such as chapter objectives, student and seminar activities, self assessment questions, case studies, key learning points and further reading, Business Environment is guaranteed to develop the skills, knowledge and key understanding of business strategy that is required at every level.