Coherence in the Midst of Complexity: Advances in Social Complexity Theory

by Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz

Introduction  Miracles and Nasty Surprises  The Failure of Models & Labels; the Success of Experience & Emergence  Two Kinds of Coherence - Ascribed and Emergent   Models, Homologies & Simulacra  The Ascribed Coherence of Thagard and Weick   Coherence and Business Success  Emergence, Coherence & Narrative  Affordances and Organization Sense-Making Revisited  But Experience is Different  Complexity the Semiotic Square & Homology   Steps to Implementation

308 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Jurgen Appelo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too much philosophy, too little usefulness.