This major work provides a coherent and essential reference for researchers and students seeking to understand complexity approaches to organization studies. The four-volume set brings together a comprehensive collection of groundbreaking and significant articles from an emerging research field which has seen a strong growing and expanding interest in many knowledge areas of social and human sciences in the last two decades. The set includes explorations and critique of the scientific and philosophical foundations, as well as theoretical and methodological orientations of complexity to organizational issues. In addition, it contains a large number of articles on practical implications and applications of complexity thinking in important areas of organization studies, such as leadership, organizational development, strategy and innovation. The sets' articles have been selected by renowned editors in the field, with the support of an international advisory board.

VOLUME ONE: WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT COMPLEXITY
PART ONE: SCIENTIFIC IDEAS AND PHILOSOPHICAL TREATMENTS
Time, Structure and Fluctuations - Ilya Prigogine
From the Concept of a System to the Paradigm of Complexity - Edgar Morin
What Is Complexity? - Murray Gell-Mann
Evolving Complexity in Social Science - Peter M. Allen
Emergence - Jeffrey Goldstein
A Construct amid a Thicket of Conceptual Snares
Post-Structuralism, Complexity and Poetics - Michael Dillon
Phenomenal Complexity Theory as Informed by Bergson - Hugo Letiche
Complexity, Cybernetics and Human Knowing - Lesley Kuhn
The Challenge of Complexity - Isabelle Stengers
Unfolding the Ethics of Science - In Memoriam Ilya Prigogine
Complexity, Deconstruction and Relativism - Paul Cilliers
Challenges of Complexity in the 21st Century - Klaus Mainzer
An Interdisciplinary Introduction
PART TWO: SOCIOLOGICAL TREATMENTS AND CRITICISM
Giddens¿ Theory of Structuration - Hans Joas
Introductory Remarks on a Sociological Transformation of the Philosophy of Praxis
A Poetics of Relational Forms - John Shotter
The Sociality of Everyday Social Life
The Shifting Concept of the Self - Ian Burkitt
Complexity Theory - Michael Agar
An Exploration and Overview Based on John Holland¿s Work
Present, Past and Future - Michael G. Flaherty and Gary Alan Fine
Conjugating George Herbert Mead¿s Perspective on Time
The Idea of Social Time in Norbert Elias - Simonetta Tabboni
Romantic and Baroque Conceptions of Complex Wholes in the Sciences - Chunglin Kwa
The Problem of the Attractor - Adrian Mackenzie
A Singular Generality between Science and Social Theory
Why Utilize Complexity Principles in Social Inquiry? - Lesley Kuhn
VOLUME TWO: THEORIZING COMPLEXITY IN ORGANIZATION STUDIES
PART ONE: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
From Complexity Science to Complex Thinking - Robert Chia
Organizations as Simple Location
Complexity, Epistemology and the Challenge of the Future - Alfonso Montuori
Why Study the Complexity Sciences in the Social Sciences? - K. Mathews et al
Boundaries, Hierarchies and Networks in Complex Systems - Paul Cilliers
When Modeling Social Systems, Models ? the Modeled - Michael R. Lissack, Michael Richardson and Kurt A. Richardson
Reacting to Wolfram¿s A New Kind of Science
Complex Thinking, Complex Practice - Haridimos Tsoukas and Mary Jo Hatch
The Case for a Narrative Approach to Organizational Complexity
Postmodernism Revisited? - Jacco Van Ude, Kurt A. Richardson and Paul Cilliers
Complexity Science and the Study of Organizations
Vortical Postmodern Ethnography - Lesley Kuhn and Robert Woog
Introducing a Complexity Approach to Systemic Social Theorizing
Complexity Science, Systems Thinking and Pragmatic Sensibility - Zhu Zhichang
PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES
Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns and Lock-in by Small Historical Events - W. Brian Arthur
Chaos and Complexity; Frontiers of Organization Science - James W. Begun
Complexity Theory and Organization Science - Philip Anderson
Complexity Theory in Organization Science - Bill McKelvey
Seizing the Promise or Becoming a Fad
The ¿Rational¿ Organization Reconsidered - James R. Taylor
An Exploration of Some of the Organizational Implications of Self-Organizing
Organizations as Complex Responsive Processes of Relating - Ralph D. Stacey
Real Presences - John Shotter
Meaning as Living Moment in a Participatory World
Technology as Social Object - Stig O. Johannessen and Ralph D. Stacey
A Complex Responsive Processes Perspective
VOLUME THREE: IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION OF COMPLEXITY
Thinking in Organization Studies: Strategy, Organizational Dynamics and Innovation
PART ONE: STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS
The Science of Complexity - Ralph D. Stacey
An Alternative Perspective for Strategic Change Processes
Strategy, Dynamic Capabilities and Complex Science - Tony McGuinness and Robert E. Morgan
Management Rhetoric versus Reality
Phenomenal Complexity Theory and Change at Disney - David M. Boje
Response to Letiche
Conditioned Emergence - Robert MacIntosh and Donald MacLean
Researching Change and Changing Research
Complexity Theory and Planning Theory - David Byrne
A Necessary Encounter
Complexity Theory and Strategic Change - Kate Houchin and Donald Maclean
An Empirically Informed Critique
Towards a Complexity Theory of Strategy - Miguel Pina e Cunha and Joao Viera da Cunha
Metaphors in Complexity Theory and Planning - Angelique Chettiparamb
Understanding Change in Organizations in a Far-from-Equilibrium World - Bob Hodge and Gabriela Coronado
Complexity in Practice - Colin Campbell-Hunt
Complexity and Collapse - Niall Ferguson
Empires on the Edge of Chaos
PART TWO: INNOVATION, CREATIVITY AND LEARNING
From Fitness Landscapes to Knowledge Landscapes - Johan Roos and David Oliver
Complex Acts of Knowing - David Snowden
Paradox and Descriptive Self-Awareness
The Complexity of Innovation and the Improvization of Complexity - Alfonso Montuori
Social Science, Art and Creativity
Learning as an Activity of Interdependent People - Ralph D. Stacey
The Emergence of Global Stability in Local Interaction in a Consulting Practice - Michael Nolan
Innovation in Organizations from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective - Ysanne Carlisle and Elizabeth McMillan
Generative Leadership - Gita Surie and James K. Hazy
Nurturing Innovation in Complex Systems
Facilitating Learning and Innovation in Organizations Using Complexity Science Principles - Carol Webb, Fiona Lettice and Mark Lemon
Exploring Innovation Processes from a Complexity Perspective - Stig O. Johannessen and Tone Merethe Berg Aasen
Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Approach
Exploring Innovation Processes from a Complexity Perspective - Tone Merethe Berg Aasen and Stig O. Johannessen
Part II: Experiences from the SIOR Case
Situated Dialogic Action Research Disclosing ¿Beginnings¿ for Innovative Change in Organizations - John Shotter
VOLUME FOUR: IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF COMPLEXITY
Thinking in Organization Studies: Leadership and Organizational Development
PART ONE: LEADERSHIP
Speaking of Complexity Theory in Management Theory and Practice - Douglas Griffin, Patricia Shaw and Ralph D. Stacey
Complexity and Management - Steve Maguire and Bill McKelvey
Moving from Fad to Firm Foundations
Leadership and Cult Values - James Taylor
Moving from the Idealized to the Experienced
Fractality, Organizational Management and Creative Change - David Levick and Lesley Kuhn
Complexity Leadership Theory - Mary Uhl-Bien, Russ Marion and Bill McKelvey
Shifting Leadership from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Era
Controlled Collaboration in Disaster and Crisis Management in The Netherlands - Astrid Scholtens
History and Practice of an Overestimated and Underestimated Concept
The Complexity Turn in Studies of Organizations and Leadership - Stig O. Johannessen
Relevance and Implications
Complexity Leadership in Bureaucratic Forms of Organizing - Mary Uhl-Bien and Russ Marion
A Meso Model
Complexity Theory, School Leadership and Management - Keith Morrison
Questions for Theory and Practice
PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Intervening in the Shadow Systems of Organizations - Patricia Shaw
Consulting from a Complexity Perspective
The Complex Resource-Based View - Barry A. Colbert
Implications for Theory and Practice in Strategic Human Resource Management
Emerging Participative Exploration - Bjorner Christensen
Consultation as Research
Governance, Complexity, and Democratic Participation - Hendrik Wagenaar
How Citizens and Public Officials Harness the Complexities of Neighborhood Decline
Skirts, Sarees and Sarongs - Farhad Dalal
The Rhetoric and Reality behind the Celebration of Diversity in Organizational Life
Executive Coaching and Leading - Andrew Lee
Senior Executives and the Emergence of Local Responsibilities - Nol Groot
A Complexity Approach to Identity Development and Performance Improvement
The Myth of Rational Objectivity and Leadership - John H. Tobin
The Realities of a Hospital Merger from a CEO¿s Perspective