Monday, 19 December 2011

Chaos theory and business studies - a brief note

Chaos theory has been applied in various business subjects, thus it can be a powerful conceptual model to be employed in dissertation projects. I provide some references here:

  1. Stacey, R.D. The Chaos Frontier - Creative strategic control for business, Butterworth Heinemann
  2. Gharajedaghi, J. (1999) Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity, Butterworth Heinemann
  3. Khalil, E.L. (1997) "Chaos Theory versus Heisenberg's Uncertainty: Risk, Uncertainty and Economic Theory", The American Economist Vol 41 (2), pp. 27-40
  4. Glass, N. (1996) "Chaos, Non-linear Systems and Day-to-day Management" European Management Journal Vol 14(1) pp. 98-106
  5. Ionita, S. (2000) "A chaos thoery perspective on system's failure" Information Sciences, 127, pp. 193-215
  6. Feichtinger, G. (1996) "Chaos Theory in Operations Research" Int. Trans. Opl. Res. Vol. 3(1), pp. 23-36
  7. McMillan, E, and Carlisle, Y. (2007) "Strategy as Order Emerging from Chaos: A Public Sector Experience" Long Range Planning 40, pp. 574-593
  8. Thietart, R.A. and Forgues, B. (1995) "Chaos Theory and Organization", Organization Science Vol. 6(1) Jan -Feb., pp. 19-31
  9. Zahra, A. and Ryan, C. (2007) "From chaos to cohesion - Complexity in tourism structures: An analysis of New Zealand's regional tourism organizations", Tourism Management 28, pp. 854-862

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