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Index
Cover
Table of Contents
Preface
1 Introduction: Why Do We Talk About Complexity in Management?
1.1. Examples of complex and/or innovative projects
1.2. Complex systems, rationality and knowledge
1.3. Cognition and the theory of the firm
1.4. The entrepreneurial dimension
1.5. Conclusions
2 The Evolution of Complex Systems
2.1. Adaptation, learning and flexibility
2.2. The nonlinear behavior of “imbalanced” systems
2.3. Autonomy and responsibility
2.4. Different evolutionary models
2.5. Implications for management
2.6. Closing remarks
3 Steering Complex Adaptive Systems: Managing Weak Signals
3.1. Navigating the ocean of signals
3.2. Managing interdependences and dancing with the system
3.3. Surfing on the wave
3.4. Conclusion
4 Entrepreneurship, Market Creation and Imagination
4.1. Some current stakes of entrepreneurship
4.2. The entrepreneur in the history of economic thought
4.3. Motivations, responsibility and identity of the entrepreneur
4.4. Entrepreneurship and complexity: the role of the imagination
5 Managerial Approaches and Theories of the Firm
5.1. Complexity and management: the first steps
5.2. Manager’s role versus complex systems
5.3. Marketing and complex systems
5.4. Complex systems and human resource management
5.5. Conclusion: managers’ creative responses
Conclusion
References
Index
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