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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"complexity theories"”.
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Five new systems heuristics to analyze small group teamwork
… groups. We make use of concepts from systems and complexity theories in order to come up with these heuristics. With each heuristic, we provide literature review both from systems and small group perspectives. We find that in many cases there is sufficient literature available to support …
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Feedback conversations for leader development: An exploration from multiple perspectives
… associated ethical issues. Drawing from complexity theories, a conceptualisation of feedback conversation as a ‘complex responsive’ process is offered to interpret findings at the organisational, interpersonal dyad and intrapersonal levels. This suggests that previous conceptualisations …
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The Life of Change Method: Rethinking Change Management in Resource Constrained Organizations through Constructivist Grounded Theory
… Guided by organizational learning and complexity theories, this research adopts a qualitative constructivist grounded theory (CGT) approach to generate empirically grounded insights into change as a lived, non-linear process. Data were collected through 23 semi-structured interviews …
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Crisis leadership at South African universities: An exploration of the effectiveness of the strategies and responses of university leadership teams to the #FeesMustFall (#FMF) protests at South African universities in 2015 and 2016
… with the interpretive paradigm. Leadership theories and chaos and complexity theories were employed and provided the lens through which the data was collected and analysed. Semi-structured interviews were used as data collection methods with 29 participants. University leaders and staff who …
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Responsiveness in the evolving landscape of work: an edgewalker’s tale
… hard and soft systems methodologies, drawing on complexity theories and social constructionist perspectives to interpret organisational dynamics. The insights reveal the importance of professional identity work in liminal spaces, proposing edgewalking as a method for engaging with uncertainty and …
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Re-examining and re-conceptualising enterprise search and discovery capability: towards a model for the factors and generative mechanisms for search task outcomes.
… critical realism and activity theory with complexity theories to one of the worlds largest corporations. Data collection included an in-situ exploratory search experiment with 26 participants, focus groups with 53 participants and interviews with 87 business professionals. Thousands of user …
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Complexity–based tools to complement project management methodologies: an interpretivist approach to project management implementation
… complement project management methodologies with complexity tools and techniques and to explain that when a project is implemented within a determinable system it may be possible to use known methodologies to plan and execute the project successfully based on success criteria of time, cost and …
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Exploring project complexities and their problems: a critical review of the literature
… behaviour world. There is varying degrees of complexity in all types of projects. This is evident in the early definition of complexity, which is defined as an entity which consists of many varied interrelated parts and elements such as tasks, components, and interdependence (Hornby & Wehmeier …
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Sistema de caracterización del aprendizaje en un entorno construccionista vía homología SCAECH en la Educación media en Colombia
From the implementation of a system of characterization of the learning of individuals in secondary education via homology it is tried to make an approach to the structures of thought that occur in students in the interaction in constructionist environments. In a constructionist environment through …