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Emergence, Complexity & Organization 2008 Annual (Hardcover, New)
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Emergence, Complexity & Organization 2008 Annual (Hardcover, New)
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Organizations of all kinds struggle to understand, adapt, respond
and manipulate changing conditions in their internal and external
environments. Approaches based on the causal, linear logic of
mechanistic sciences and engineering continue to play an important
role, given people's ability to create order. But such approaches
are valid only within carefully circumscribed boundaries. They
become counterproductive when the same organizations display the
highly reflexive, context-dependent, dynamic nature of systems in
which agents learn and adapt and new patterns emerge. The rapidly
expanding discussion about complex systems offers important
contributions to the integration of diverse perspectives and
ultimately new insights into organizational effectiveness. There is
increasing interest in complexity in mainstream business education,
as well as in specialist business disciplines such as knowledge
management. Real world systems can't be completely designed,
controlled, understood or predicted, even by the so-called sciences
of complexity, but they can be more effective when understood as
complex systems. While many scientific disciplines explore
complexity principally through abstract mathematical models and
simulations, Emergence: Complexity & Organization explores the
emerging understanding of human systems from both the 'hard'
quantitative sciences and the 'soft' qualitative perspectives. This
2008 Annual includes articles from Stephen J. Guastello, Ken
Baskin, Mihnea Moldoveanu, Frank Boons, Duncan A. Robertson, Brenda
L. Massetti, Maria May Seitanidi, Mary Lee Rhodes and many more,
which explore a range of complexity-related topics from
philosophical concerns through to the practical application of
complexity ideas, concepts and frameworks in human organizations.
Also included are a series of four reproductions of classical
papers in the fields of complexity and systems, each with critical
introductions that explore their modern relevance: "The Meanings of
'Emergence' and Its Modes" by Arthur O. Lovejoy (originally
published in 1927) "An Outline of General System Theory" by Ludwig
von Bertalanffy (originally published in 1950) "Society as a
Complex Adaptive System" by Walter Buckley (originally published in
1968) "Is Adaptability Enough?" by Geoffrey Vickers (originally
published in 1959)
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