Evolutionary Management (Management Thinking and Methods in Complex Dynamic Environments)

Author: Peng Xinwu
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: The book "Evolutionary Management" is based on general evolution theory and uses complexity thinking as the main analytical tool. By comprehensively revealing the limitations of traditional management concepts and models, it constructs a new paradigm of management——Evolutionary Management——suitable for the complex and dynamic environment of the contemporary world. This transformation of the management research paradigm primarily includes the following aspects: from mechanical hierarchy to organic systems, from harmonious layout to creating crises, from certainty to chaos, from planning-control to self-organization, from rationality to bounded rationality, from adaptation to co-evolution, from competition to cooperation, from universal claims to contingency views, from static functions to dynamic processes, and from core capabilities to dynamic advantages.