TY - GEN AU - Eskola, Anne, TI - Navigating through changing times: knowledge management incomplex environments T2 - Routledge advances in management and business studies SN - 9781138048461 U1 - 658.4038 NA VI PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Knowledge work KW - Knowledge Management KW - Ethical problems KW - Organizations KW - Organizational change N2 - Complexity theory including the concepts of chaos and emergence has been considered one of the most revolutionary products of the 20th century having influence on science, technology and economics among others. Any complex systems, such as organisms, societies, stock market or the Internet, have emergent properties that cannot be reduced to the mere properties of their parts. The theory has been used in organizational studies and strategic management where it offers an alternative way to look at organizations. The theory rejects the idea of organizations seen as machines and a planned approach to organizational change ER -