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Are organisations complex adaptive systems?

April 26, 2017adaptive complex organisations SYSTEMS

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Are organisations complex adaptive systems?

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At this point it is worth asking whether complexity theory has anything useful to say about organisations. Is an organisation a complex system? Gareth Morgan offers complexity as just one of his metaphors for organisation. There are many who would argue that complexity is not just a metaphor for organisations, it is an adequate and accurate description of organisations. Morgan himself appears not to discriminate between the different kinds of metaphor he offers.