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Coherence in the Midst of Complexity

Advances in Social Complexity Theory

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Hugo Letiche
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  2. Michael Lissack
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  3. Ron Schultz
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction Miracles and Nasty Surprises

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Failure of Models and Labels and the Success of Experience and Emergence

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz
    Pages 11-41

  4. Two Kinds of Coherence—Ascribed and Emergent

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz
    Pages 43-62

  5. Models, Homologies, and Simulacra

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz
    Pages 63-82

  6. The Ascribed Coherence of Thagard and Weick

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz
    Pages 83-100

  7. Emergence, Coherence, and Business Success

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz
    Pages 101-136

  8. Emergence, Coherence, and Narrative

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz
    Pages 137-153

  9. Affordances and Organization

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz
    Pages 155-172

  10. Homology: Sensemaking Revisited

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz
    Pages 173-196

  11. But Experience is Different

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz
    Pages 197-220

  12. Complexity Tools: The Semiotic Square and Homology

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz
    Pages 221-237

  13. Not a Conclusion Steps to Implementation

    • Hugo Letiche, Michael Lissack, Ron Schultz
    Pages 239-256

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 257-297
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A discussion on the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root. The authors focus on the experience of coherence and how such experiential lessons differ from the establishment and maintenance of categories and labels.

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"Every manager should read this book and take it to heart." Ian I. Mitroff, Professor Emeritus at the Marshall School of Business and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

About the authors

Author Michael Lissack: Michael Lissack is Executive Director and ISCE Professor of Meaning in Organizations at the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (ISCE), USA; Visiting Research Professor at the George Washington University School of Business, USA; Walter J. Hickel Professor of Leadership at Alaska Pacific University, USA; and a serial entrepreneur.

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