Issue Articles
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
FORUM
Scientist and entrepreneur: A chat with Ernesto Illy on coffee, complexity and Prigogine
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CLASSIC PAPER
An introduction to "The meanings of ‘emergence’ and its modes"
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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