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Rational Choice or Leap of Faith? The Creation and Defence of a Management Orthodoxy
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Oliver, Nick – Learning Organization, 2008
Purpose: In the 1980s and 1990s enthusiasm for Japanese or "lean" manufacturing methods swept through Western industry. At the time, commentators argued that these methods represented a new paradigm of manufacturing, a radical break with traditional methods. The purpose of this paper is to explore the process of conversion from one…
Descriptors: Models, Critical Incidents Method, Manufacturing, Administrative Principles
Complex Adaptive Systems as Metaphors for Organizational Management
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Palmberg, Klara – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of complex adaptive systems (CAS) from the perspective of managing organizations, to describe and explore the management principles in a case study of an organization with unconventional ways of management and to present a tentative model for managing organizations as CAS--system…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Administrative Organization, Knowledge Management, Figurative Language