Chaos theory, which has received a great deal of attention from researchers in the natural sciences, is probably difficult to apply to less structured areas such as management. However, it seems that the qualitative properties of chaos theory have an explanatory and integrative power that organization theories could use to their advantage. The qualitative properties evoked by chaos theory-sensitivity to initial conditions, strange attractors, scale invariance, time irreversibility, and bifurcation processes-are powerful enough to offer another perspective from which to view the way organizations work