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Brief contents List of boxes xiv List of tables xv Preface xvi 1 Strategic management in perspective: a step in the professionalisation of management 2 2 Thinking about strategy and organisational change: the implicit assumptions distinguishing one theory from another 28
Part 1 Systemic ways of thinking about strategy and organisational dynamics 3 The origins of systems thinking in the Age of Reason 48 4 Thinking in terms of strategic choice: cybernetic systems, cognitivist and humanistic psychology 66 5 Thinking in terms of organisational learning and knowledge creation: systems dynamics, cognitivist, humanistic and constructivist psychology 100 6 Thinking in terms of organisational psychodynamics: open systems and psychoanalytic perspectives 128 7 Thinking about strategy process from a systemic perspective: using a process to control a process 150 8 A review of systemic ways of thinking about strategy and organisational dynamics: key challenges for alternative ways of thinking 176 9 Extending and challenging the dominant discourse on organisations: thinking about participation and practice 202
Part 2 The challenge of complexity to ways of thinking
Part 3 Complex responsive processes as a way of thinking about 10 The complexity sciences: the sciences of uncertainty 238 11 Systemic applications of complexity sciences to organisations: restating the dominant discourse 266 strategy and organisational dynamics 12 Responsive processes thinking: the interplay of intentions 302 13 The emergence of organisational strategy in local communicative interaction: complex responsive processes of conversation 338 14 The link between the local communicative interaction of strategising and the population-wide patterns of strategy 362 15 The emergence of organisational strategy in local communicative interaction: complex responsive processes of ideology and power relating 388 16 Different modes of articulating patterns of interaction emerging across organisations: strategy narratives and strategy models 416 17 Complex responsive processes of strategising: acting locally on the basis of global goals, visions, expectations and intentions for the 'whole' organisation over the 'long-term future' 456 18 Complex responsive processes: implications for thinking about organisational dynamics and strategy 486 References 519 Index 545