... to superiors or do slow strategic planning exercises. Strategic management Complexity theory Chaos theory South Africa The business environment is comprised of a set of relationships between agents or stakeholders in the environment – relationships that are changed by individual decisions taken...

... the organization can make this system far more effective. Originality/value The paper is among the very few that deal with crisis management from a complexity perspective. Alexandros Paraskevas can be contacted at: aparaskevas@brookes.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Chaos theory...

... (Dimaggio, 2001 ; Pettigrew et al., 2003 ; Pettigrew and Fenton, 2000 ; Jackson, 1999 ; Nadler and Tushman, 1999). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Complexity theory Chaos theory While complexity theory has made significant progress it still remains an elusive...

... perspectives, preferably with two or more. Chaos theory Complexity theory Decision making Ethics Politics Psychology Fractal geometry can vividly portray the behaviour of chaotic systems (Anderla et al., 1997). Essentially, fractals show that evidently irregular shapes are, on closer...