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"Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. In recent decades, this has cast doubt over the validity and reliability of many working assumptions about the nature and logic of progress in modern societies, at all levels of social structure and complexity. In The Challenge of Progress, editor Harry F. Dahms and a series of contributors explore how this doubt has been magnified, looking at how the institutions and constellations between business, labor and government have begun to weaken. The essays included in this volume examine the foundations, nature and contradictions of progress in the modern era. Anchored by - but not exclusively focused on - a debate of Amy Allen's recent book, The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (2016), the eleven essays identify, analyse and confront the challenges of progress, looking across social class, philosophy, history and culture in their analyses. For researchers and students across social theory, this is an unmissable volume confronting the present and future of our societies. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of "progress"?"

"Contents: 1 Strategic management in perspective: A step in the professionalization of management 2 Thinking about strategy and organisational change: The implicit assumptions distinguishing one theory from another Part One -- SYSTEMIC WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT STRATEGY AND ORGANISATIONAL DYDNAMICS 3 The origins of systems thinking in the age of reason 4 Thinking in terms of strategic choice: cybernetic systems, cognitivist and humanistic psychology 5 Thinking in terms of organisational learning and knowledge creation: systems dynamics, cognitivist, humanistic and constructivist psychology 6 Thinking in terms of organisational psychodynamics: open systems and psychoanalytic perspectives 7 Thinking about strategy process from a systemic perspective: using a process to control a process 8 A review of systemic ways of thinking about strategy and organisational dynamics 9 Extending and challenging the dominant discourse on organisations: thinking about participation and practice Part Two -- THE CHALLENGE OF COMPLEXITY TO WAYS OF THINKING 10 The complexity sciences: the sciences of uncertainty 11 Systemic applications of complexity sciences to organisations: restating the dominant discourse Part Three -- COMPLEX RESPONSIVE PROCESSES AS A WAY OF THINKING ABOUT STRATEGY AND ORGANISATIONAL DYNAMICS 12 Responsive processes thinking: the interplay of intentions 13 The emergence of organisational strategy in local communicative interaction: complex responsive processes of conversation 14 The link between the local communicative interaction of strategising and the population-wide patterns of strategy 15 The emergence of organisational strategy in local communicative interaction: complex responsive processes of ideology and power relating 16 Different modes of articulating patterns of interaction emerging across organisations: strategy narratives and models 17 Complex responsive processes of strategising: acting locally on the basis of global goals, visions, expectations and intentions for the 'whole' organisation over the 'long term future' 18 Complex responsive processes: implications for thinking about organisational dynamics and strateg"