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100 1 _aATKINSON Simon Rey
245 _aThe agile organization:
_bfrom informal networks to complex effects and agility /
_cSimon Reay Atkinson, James Moffat
260 _aWashington DC:
_bUS Dept of Defense,CCRP,
_c2005
300 _axxii, 211 p.
520 _aWritten by an academic and a British naval officer this book "...looks at complexity, networks, and formal organizations from a British military and policy making perspective...it attempts to place the military in context so that it can better understand itself, the complex adaptive world it faces, the ways and means it may wish to aggregate, and how it is to be commanded and so controlled...to confront enemies of today and tomorrow adaptively, agilely, and with confidence." (Authors introduction). Considers informal networks, how they react with formal structures and gives some real examples.
650 _aORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
650 _aCHANGE MANAGEMENT
700 _aMOFFAT James
440 _aInformation age transformation series
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