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ACADEMIC

Organizations as Universal Computing Machines: Rule systems, computational equivalence, and organizational complexity

Organizations can be—and, have been—modeled as rule-based systems. On a reductive view, the resulting models depict organizations as cellular automata (CA) that carry out computations whose inputs are the initial and boundary conditions o... Read More

PHILOSOPHY

An epistemology of learning through

The purpose of this paper is to initiate a conversation exploring the epistemological implications of the many forms that learning may take while attending to the demands generated by complexity. This paper offers a look at an emerging epistemology o... Read More

with ALIKI NICOLAIDES LYLE YORKS

EDITORIAL

Editorial (10.1)

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ACADEMIC

Getting past conflict resolution: A complexity view of conflict

The traditional view of conflict, as a problematic condition always requiring reduction or elimination and whose conditions or outcomes can be predicted, is incompatible with a complex adaptive systems view of organizations. Thus, conventional approa... Read More

with LETICIA ANDRADE DONDE PLOWMAN DENNIS DUCHON

ACADEMIC

Design for social systems: Change as conversation

This paper explores the application of new approaches in organizational development and institutional economics to a communicative design process with application in design of social systems. Theory from four authors is investigated and applied to a ... Read More

with ROBERT SIMPSON RODERIC GILL