"The Edge of Organization offers a readable, comprehensive, and integrated overview of the new sciences of chaos and complexity. Author Russ Marion describes formal and social organizations from the perspective of chaos and complexity theories. His multidisciplinary approach wil…
Russ Marion discusses formal and social organizations from the perspectives of chaos and complexity theories. The book aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the new sciences of chaos and complexity.
-Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The theory of cooperative system -- Chapter 3: The theory of formal organization -- Chapter 4: The theory of complex formal organization -- Chapter 5: The theory of informal organization -- Chapter 6: The theory of lateral and scaler organi…
This book presents a novel and comprehensive process theory of organization applicable to 'a world on the move', where connectedness prevails over size, flow prevails over stability, and temporality prevails over spatiality. The process theory developed in the book draws upon pr…
This title presents a novel and comprehensive process theory of organisation applicable to 'a world on the move'. It contains a number of practical examples to illustrate the theoretical framework and will serve as an excellent introduction for researchers and graduate students.