The Changing Organization: Agency Theory in a Cross-Cultural Context

The Changing Organization offers a multidisciplinary approach to studying the management of change in complex environments, combining a systems and cybernetic living system perspective to model, diagnose, and analyze real-world situations. It provides valuable insights for scholars and graduate students in various fields and is a guide for consultants seeking to apply advanced contextual analysis techniques to real-world situations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 465 pages
Publication date: 24 March 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The Changing Organization offers a comprehensive multidisciplinary framework for examining the management of change in complex environments. Single-discipline approaches often fail to capture essential factors that hinder coherence within multi-agency organizational settings. By integrating a systems and cybernetic living system perspective, Guo, Yolles, Fink, and Iles present a novel agency paradigm aimed at modeling, diagnosing, and analyzing intricate real-world situations. This paradigm's ability to anticipate behavior patterns provides valuable insights into the origins of crises and facilitates the reflection of resolutions. This book holds immense value for scholars and graduate students across diverse fields such as management, politics, anthropology, and psychology, as it provides a rich resource for understanding socio-political and organizational change. Moreover, it serves as an invaluable guide for consultants seeking to apply advanced techniques of contextual analysis to real-world scenarios.

Weight: 619g
ISBN-13: 9781316600917