Expanding the Toolbox of Organizational and Management Theory: Complexity, Morphogenesis , Catastrophe and Chaos

• Autorzy: Piotr Płoszajski
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The paper attempts to analyze the applicability and transferability of chaos and complexity theories and related concepts for the field of organizational, management and economic disciplines. It is based on the assumption that since the latter also deal, in fact, with highly complex, multi-faceted and multi agent systems such as societies, economies and large organizational structures dominated by nonlinearity and predictive hopelessness they, indeed, have a lot to learn from findings and metaphors derived from the previous, seemingly "distant" ones. The concepts discussed include: complexity phenomena, catastrophe theory, morphogenesis and autocatalytic sets, counterituitiveness of socio-economic systems, third-order phase transition and, finally, the chaos theory understood as the qualitative study of deterministic, nonlinear, and dynamical systems with unstable and aperiodic behavior. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Management; Chaos theory

PL

Zarządzanie; Teoria chaosu

• Czasopismo: Organizacja i Kierowanie
• Rocznik: 2014
• Numer: nr 1B
• Strony: 60--79

Twórcy

autor

Piotr Płoszajski

• Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie

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