Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations Book

	List of illustrations
	Series preface
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction: can learning and knowledge creation in organizations really be managed?	1
Pt. I	The foundations of mainstream views on learning and knowledge creation in organizations: systems thinking	11
2	Mainstream thinking about learning and knowledge creation in organizations	13
3	Different levels of learning and knowledge creation in organizations: the individual and the social	40
Pt. II	Toward a complexity perspective: the emergence of knowledge in complex responsive processes of relating	67
4	The emergence of the individual and the social in communicative interaction	69
5	Communicative action in the medium of symbols	100
6	The organization of communicative action: rule-based or self-organizing knowledge?	117
7	The emergence of enabling constraints: power relations and unconscious processes	146
8	Organizations as communicating in the living present: how knowledge emerges in complex responsive processes of relating	162
Pt. III	Systems thinking and the perspective of complex responsive processes: comparisons and implications	191
9	Comparing systems thinking and the perspective of complex responsive processes	193
10	The organizational implications of complex responsive processes of knowledge creation	218
App	Autopoiesis: an inappropriate analogy for human action	236
	Bibliography	244
	Index	253