Ralph D. Stacey

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Ralph D. Stacey
Professor of Management, Ralph D. Stacey
Born	(1948-10-00)October , 1948 Johannesburg, South Africa
Died	September 4, 2021(2021-09-04) (aged 72) London, United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of the Witwatersrand, London School of Economics
Occupation(s)	Educator, economist, writer
Known for	Organisations as complex responsive systems

Ralph Douglas Stacey (October 1948 – September 4 2021) was a British organizational theorist and Professor of Management at Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire, in the UK and one of the pioneers of enquiring into the implications of the natural sciences of complexity for understanding human organisations and their management. He is best known for his writings on the theory of organisations as complex responsive processes of relating.^[1]