A complexity-based approach to understanding strategic management in the Chinese Organizations

The last decade has witnessed a rapid advancement of technology innovation, considerable changes in the demographics, rapid shifts in consumer behaviors, fast-paced development in international business, and significant economic growth in the developing countries and newly industrialized countries. Consequently, the macro-environment for business organizations has increasingly become competitive, turbulent and vibrant. At the organizational and individual levels, the rapid development of information and communications technology (ICT), such as the Internet and mobile phones, has significantly broaden and strengthen the connections among organizations and individuals, thereby making organizations more complex than ever before from the viewpoint of a complex adaptive system. All these developments, at both macroand micro-levels, have combined to produce new challenges and opportunities for business managers.