Experiencing Emergence in Organizations

Examining the experience of organizational practitioners, this book features contributions from professionals as they explore the perspective of complex responsive processes, and examine how this impacts their development.

Ralph Stacey

Notes on contributors, Series preface, 1 Introduction: emergence and organizations, 2 Local and global processes in organizational life, 3 The local experience of a global diversity initiative in a multinational pharmaceutical company, 4 The emergence of global stability in local interaction in a consulting practice, 5 Experiencing national education policies in local interaction, 6 Technology as social object: a complex responsive processes perspective, 7 Writing in organizational life: how a technology simultaneously forms and is formed by human interaction, Index