Selected reading
Classic texts on chaos and complexity theory from the natural sciences:
Gell-Mann, M. (1994), The Quark and the Jaguar, New York: Freeman.
Gleick, J. (1988), Chaos: The Making of a New Science, London: William Heinemann.
Goodwin, B. (1994), How the Leopard Changed its Spots, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Holland, J. (1998), Emergence from Chaos to Order, New York: Oxford University Press.
Kauffman, S. A. (1995), At Home in the Universe, New York: Oxford University Press.
Mainzer, K. (1997) Thinking in Complexity: The complex dynamics of matter, mind and mankind, Berlin: Springer.
Prigogine, I. and Stengers, I. (1984), Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue With Nature, New York: Bantam Books.
Prigogine, I. (1997) The End of Certainty: Time, chaos and the new laws of nature, New York: The Free Press.
Waldrop, M. M. (1992), Complexity: The Emerging Science At the Edge of Chaos, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Simon & Schuster.
Texts setting out some ideas on management and complexity
These two have extensive reading lists:
MacIntosh, R., MacLean, D., Stacey, R. & Griffin, D. (eds) (2006), Complexity and Organization: Readings and Conversations, London: Routledge.
Stacey R. D. (2007) Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics, London: Pearson Education. (5th Edition)
In addition to some popular books on complexity and management:
Pascale, R.T., Millemann, M. and Gioja L. (2000) Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The laws of nature and the new laws of business, New York: Crown Business.
Wheatley, M. J., (1992) Leadership and the New Science: Learning about organization from an orderly universe, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. (2nd Edition 1999, Leadership and the New Science: Discovering order in a chaotic world)
Books/articles on method
Allen, P. M. (1998) ‘Evolving complexity in social science’, in Altman, G. & Koch, W. A. (eds), Systems: New Paradigms for the Human Sciences, New York: Walter de Gruyter. This article is in the volume MacIntosh, MacLean, Stacey and Griffin (eds), Complexity and Organization: Readings and Conversations.
Alvesson, M. and Skoldberg, K. (2009) Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research, London: Sage.
Baert, P. (2005) Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Bourdieu, P. (2004) Science of Science and Reflexivity, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Bourdieu, P. and Wacquant, J.D. (1992) An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology,
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Deakin, N. K. and Y. S. Lincoln, (eds) (2000). Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. CDU Library.
Flyvbjerg, B. (2001) Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Enquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Giddens, A. (1993) New Rules of Sociological Method, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Stacey, R. & Griffin, D. (eds) (2005) A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organizations: Taking experience seriously: London: Routledge.
Writers who have tried to overcome subject/object, individual/collective dualisms in explanations of social phenomena
Bourdieu, P. (1990) The Logic of Practice, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Bourdieu, P. (1991) Language and Symbolic Power, Cambridge: Polity Press
Elias, N. & Scotson, J. (1994), The Established and the Outsiders, London: Sage.
Elias, N. (1978) What is Sociology?, London: Hutchinson.
Elias, N. (1989) The Symbol Theory, London: Sage.
Elias, N. (2000) The Civilizing Process, Oxford: Blackwell.
The Essential Dewey, Vols I and II, Hickman, A. and Alexander, T. (eds) (1998), Indiana: Indiana Press.
Honneth, A. (1995) The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Mead, G. H. (1932) The Philosophy of the Present, Chicago: University of Chicago.
Mead. G. H. (1934) Mind, Self and Society: From the standpoint of a social behaviorist, Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Stacey, R. (2003) Complexity and Group Processes: A radically social understanding of individuals, London: Brunner-Routledge
