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Ralph D. Stacey

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#47

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Ralph D. Stacey's Degrees

PhD Management University of Bath
Masters Management University of Bath
Bachelors Mathematics University of Bath

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According to Wikipedia, Ralph Douglas Stacey was a British organizational theorist and Professor of Management at Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire, in the UK and one of the pioneers of enquiring into the implications of the natural sciences of complexity for understanding human organisations and their management. He is best known for his writings on the theory of organisations as complex responsive processes of relating.

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Ralph D. Stacey's Published Works

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Complexity and Creativity in Organizations (1996) (1274)
Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics: The Challenge of Complexity (1999) (1072)
The science of complexity: An alternative perspective for strategic change processes (1995) (1036)
Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation (2001) (905)
Complexity and Management: Fad or Radical Challenge to Systems Thinking? (2002) (847)
Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics (1993) (716)
Managing the unknowable : strategic boundaries between order and chaos in organizations (1992) (347)
Learning as an activity of interdependent people (2003) (247)
Complexity and Group Processes: A Radically Social Understanding of Individuals (2003) (193)
Strategy as order emerging from chaos (1993) (192)
The Chaos Frontier: Creative Strategic Control for Business (1991) (157)
Complexity and Organizational Reality: Uncertainty and the Need to Rethink Management after the Collapse of Investment Capitalism (2009) (143)
Tools and Techniques of Leadership and Management: Meeting the Challenge of Complexity (2012) (134)
A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organizations : Taking Experience Seriously (2005) (129)
Chaos, Management and Economics: The Implications of Non-Linear Thinking (1994) (125)
Managing Chaos: Dynamic Business Strategies in an Unpredictable World (1992) (125)
Emerging strategies for a chaotic environment (1996) (115)
What contribution can insights from the complexity sciences make to the theory and practice of development management (2008) (114)
Experiencing Emergence in Organizations : local interaction and the emergence of global pattern (2005) (113)
Managing the Unknowable : The Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos (1992) (105)
Complexity and Management (2000) (102)
The Emergence of Knowledge in Organization (2000) (96)
The challenge of human interdependence: Consequences for thinking about the day to day practice of management in organizations (2007) (96)
Speaking of Complexity in Management Theory and Practice (1998) (68)
Complexity and the Experience of Managing in Public Sector Organizations (2005) (67)
Complexity and the Experience of Leading Organizations (2005) (66)
Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics: The challenge of complexity to ways of thinking about organisations (2011) (59)
Management and the Science of Complexity: If Organizational Life Is Nonlinear, Can Business Strategies Prevail? (1996) (59)
Knowing and Acting in Conditions of Uncertainty: A Complexity Perspective (1999) (58)
THE EMERGENCE OF KNOWLEDGE IN ORGANIZATIONS (2007) (46)
Governance and cooperative networks: An adaptive systems perspective (1997) (40)
Experiencing risk, spontaneity and improvization in organizational change : working live (2006) (37)
Affects and Cognition in a Social Theory of Unconscious Processes (2005) (34)
Complexity and Organizational Reality (2012) (33)
Dynamic Strategic Management for the 1990s (1990) (28)
Experience and method: a complex responsive processes perspective on research in organizations (2006) (27)
Complexity and Organization : Readings and Conversations (2006) (27)
Complexity and the experience of values, conflict and compromise in organizations (2008) (26)
29th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Organizational Identity: The Paradox of Continuity and Potential Transformation at the Same Time (2005) (25)
Management and the Science of Complexity (1996) (24)
Complexity and the Group Matrix (2001) (23)
Ways of thinking about public sector governance (2007) (23)
Strategic Thinking and the Management of Change : International Perspectives on Organisational Dynamics (1993) (20)
Dynamic strategic management for the 1990s : balancing opportunism and business planning (1990) (19)
What Can it Mean to Say that the Individual is Social through and through? (2001) (19)
Reflexivity, Self-Organization and Emergence in the Group Matrix (2000) (17)
Managing the unknowable (1992) (14)
Complexity and organization (2006) (13)
Social Selves and the Notion of the 'Group-as-a-whole' (2005) (13)
Complexity at the “Edge” of the Basic-Assumption Group* (2018) (12)
Dynamic Strategic Management (1990) (12)
Experiencing Spontaneity, Risk & Improvisation in Organizational Life : Working Live (2006) (11)
Complexity and the experience of leading organizations /Edited by Douglas Griffin and Ralph Stacey (2005) (8)
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF TERRITORIAL SEGREGATION IN SOUTH AFRICA (1966) (8)
Comment on debate article: Coaching Psychology Coming of Age: The challenges we face in the messy world of complexity (2012) (7)
Theories of Change in Therapeutic Work (2006) (6)
Excitement and Tension at the Edge of Chaos (1997) (5)
The Paradox of Consensus and Conflict in Organisational Life (2016) (4)
The experience of clinical risk assessment in the health sector (2007) (4)
11 – Strategic ‘control’ is creative exploration (1991) (4)
How the complexity sciences deal with the future (2000) (3)
Leadership, learning and skill development (2005) (3)
Executive summariesStrategy as order emerging from chaos (1993) (2)
THE ACCURACY OF THE STELLENBOSCH BUREAU FORECASTS(1959–66)* (1968) (2)
Introduction to Dynamic Management, Choice and Action (1991) (1)
Complexity and human action (2000) (1)
Complexity and the emergence of novelty (2000) (1)
UNIFORMITY IN OUTPUT GROWTH PATTERNS IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR (1969) (1)
Differing views on complexity in organizations (2000) (1)
Creative Organisations : The Relevance of Chaos and Psychodynamics Systems (1999) (1)
7 – What scientific chaos means for managers (1991) (0)
Peter M.Allen EVOLVING COMPLEXITY IN SOCIAL SCIENCE (2013) (0)
Moving toward an unknowable future (2000) (0)
10 – Strategic ‘control’ is spontaneous political choice (1991) (0)
Limits of systems thinking: focusing on knowable futures (2000) (0)
6 – Today's models: a limited understanding of management dynamics (1991) (0)
THE POTENTIAL FOR APPLYING COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS THEORY TO THE PROCESS OF ESTIMATING IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (2005) (0)
The age-old question of stability and change (2000) (0)
Together in the Past and Future of the Now (2008) (0)
3 – Relationship between control form and change situation (1991) (0)
4 – The mechanisms driving business development (1991) (0)
8 – Implications of chaos for controlling and developing a business (1991) (0)
Robert Chia FROM COMPLEXITY SCIENCE TO COMPLEX THINKING: ORGANIZATION AS SIMPLE LOCATION (2013) (0)
Understanding organizing activities as the game: implications for leadership and management tools and techniques (2012) (0)
Editors' introduction and commentary (2013) (0)
Discussion on Article by Sue Bradbury (2001) (0)
Introduction to The Concerns of Dynamic Management (1991) (0)
Robert C.H. Chia and Robin Holt Strategy without Design: The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 248pp. ISBN: 978–0–521– 89550–7. £55.00 (hb) (2010) (0)
The limitations of the tools and techniques of instrumental rationality: incompatibility with expert performance (2012) (0)
9 – Strategic ‘control’ is organizational learning (1991) (0)
The New Knowledge Management (2003) (0)
Robert Macintosh and Donald MacLean CONDITIONED EMERGENCE: A DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES APPROACH TO TRANSFORMATION (2013) (0)
PART THREE Complexity in social settings (2013) (0)
Introduction to Scientific Chaos and Dynamic Management (1991) (0)
Institutions and the techniques of leadership and management: habits, rules and routines (2012) (0)
Book Review (2003) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
Editors' discussion of the readings in Part One (2013) (0)
The movement of our thought (2000) (0)
Managing in Four Worlds Culture , strategy and transformation (2013) (0)
Book Review: Pragmatic Strategy: Eastern Wisdom, Global Success (2013) (0)
The Role of Chaos and Self Organisation in Creative Organisations (1995) (0)
David Levy CHAOS THEORY AND STRATEGY: THEORY, APPLICATION, AND MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS (2013) (0)
Getting things done in organizations: from systems to complex responsive processes (2000) (0)
Margaret J. Wheatley CHAOS AND THE STRANGE ATTRACTOR OF MEANING (2013) (0)
The leadership and management ‘techniques’ of practical judgment: reﬂexive inquiry, improvisation and political adroitness (2012) (0)
The leadership and management techniques of disciplinary power: surveillance and normalization (2012) (0)
The leadership and management tools and techniques of instrumental rationality: rules and step-by-step procedures (2012) (0)
Introduction: getting things done in organizations (2000) (0)
Ralph Stacey LEARNING AS AN ACTIVITY OF INTERDEPENDENT PEOPLE (2013) (0)
Richard T. Pascale SURFING THE EDGE OF CHAOS (2013) (0)
2 – Goals, behaviour and change (1991) (0)
13 – Management intervention and strategic ‘control’ (1991) (0)
The theory of complex responsive processes: understanding organizations as patterns of interaction between people (2012) (0)
The origins of Western notions of causality (2000) (0)
Leading Change in Healthcare (2022) (0)
Complexity sciences as sources of analogy (2000) (0)
12 – Chaos: a different perspective for action (1991) (0)
Douglas Griffin, Patricia Shaw and Ralph Stacey SPEAKING OF COMPLEXITY IN MANAGEMENT THEORY AND PRACTICE (2013) (0)
PART ONE Chaos theory and dissipative structures: direct applications of complexity thinking (2013) (0)
Conclusion: frequently asked questions (2012) (0)
COMPLEXITY AND MANAGEMENT PAPERS No 32 COMPLEXITY AND THE GROUP MATRIX (2007) (0)
Introduction to Today's Most Prominent Management Models (1991) (0)
Contradiction: Experiencing the reality of uncertainty but still believing that executives choose an organization’s ‘direction’ (2009) (0)
5 – Rational planning, entrepreneurial enthusiasm and political power (1991) (0)
Newsletter of the Norbert Elias Foundation 27 (2007) (0)

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