Experiencing Emergence in Organizations: Local Interaction and the Emergence of Global Patterns [Paperback]

Examining the experiences of organizational practitioners, this informative book features contributions from experienced leaders, consultants and managers in various organizations, and narrative accounts of the contributors work address key topical questions.

Rather than offering descriptions of organizational life, this book provides reflective accounts of real life experiences of researching in organizations, and will be a valuable insight for academics and business school students and practitioners.

In considering several key questions in terms of daily experience, the contributors explore the perspective of complex responsive processes, investigate how this assists them to make sense of their experience and analyze how it leads to their development.

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.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, IndexUS? 2005 Ralph Stacey