论文信息 - Chaos and Complexity Theory in Management: An Exploration from a Critical Systems Thinking Perspective

Chaos and Complexity Theory in Management: An Exploration from a Critical Systems Thinking Perspective

This paper presents the theoretical and practical findings emerging from an exploratory study of Chaos and Complexity Theory (C&CT) as an alternative approach to propitiate new understandings about the nature of management in organisations. They show that C&CT is not theoretically coherent enough to be applied in practice.

Maria Carolina Ortegón-Monroy

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