Stacey R.D. Strategic management and organisational dynamics: The challenge of complexity to ways of thinking about organisations

Prentice Hall – 2011, 560 pages
ISBN: 0273725599, 9780273725596Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics remains unique amongst strategic management textbooks by taking a refreshingly alternative look at the subject. Stacey challenges the conceptual orthodoxy of planned strategy, focusing instead on the influence of more complex and unstable forces in the development of strategy.
Ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate study, this critically detailed account deals with current issues, raising the challenge of complexity within practice and theory.New to this edition:
A new introduction outlining the book’s unique approach and remit.
A brand new chapter on dominant discourse and what evidence there is for its prescriptions.
A brand new chapter which blends second order systems thinking and communities of practice with new material on social constructionist approaches and labour process theory.
A focus on what strategic management might mean from the perspective of complex responsive processes.