AFTERWORD: WHERE STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS GOES FROM HERE
Structural dynamics theory began in the 1970s in the course of my studying face-to-face communication in families. In the 1990s, it extended to the study of couples in therapy. Between 2000 and 2008, I began to expand the theory and to apply it to corporations and their teams. Going forward, structural dynamics will focus primarily on teams, team behavior in low and high stakes, and the ability to measure change using computerized instruments with the capacity to code and capture structural dynamics’ basic unit of measurement, the speech act.
Over time, the speech act became the theory’s basic unit for coding and measuring what happens in human vocal discourse in social networks like families, ...
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