<p><b>Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics</b> remains unique amongst strategic management textbooks by taking a refreshingly alternative look at the subject. Drawing on the sciences of complexity as well as a broad range of social scientific literature, Stacey and Mowles challenge the conceptual orthodoxy of planned strategy, focusing instead on emergence and the predictable unpredictability of organisational life.</p><p> </p><p>Ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate study, this critically detailed account deals with current issues, raising the challenge of complexity within practice and theory. </p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>New to this edition:</b></p><ul><li>The literature from past editions is refreshed and updated. </li><li>More examples are given from contemporary organisational life and social life more generally. </li><li>The canon of thinkers who inform complex responsive processes of relating is broadened and deepened. </li><li>Ther