Issue Articles
FORUM
Empowerment: Chapter 2 (of 10) - Creativity vs. competition
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ACADEMIC
Self-organization and sustainability: The emergence of a regional industrial ecology
Industrial ecology is a rapidly developing field of research and practice in which the sustainability of industrial systems is thought to be improved through closing of material and energy loops among firms. In this paper, I look at the developing pr... Read More
ACADEMIC
Natural science models in management: Opportunities and challenges
This paper sets out how models from natural science can be used within the management domain. We contend that this transformation between domains is best served by agent-based models, where the agent behavior is important, not the specifics of the ag... Read More
with DUNCAN ROBERTSON ADRIAN.CALDART CALDART
PHILOSOPHY
Homeostasis, complexity, and the problem of biological design
The harmonious melding of structure and function—biological design—is a striking feature of complex living systems such as tissues, organs, organisms, even superorganismal assemblages like social insect colonies or ecosystems. How designe... Read More
PRACTITIONER
Storied spaces: The human equivalent of complex adaptive systems
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ACADEMIC
The coevolutionary relation between Dutch mainport policies and the development of the Seaport Rotterdam
This article approaches the spatial development of the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands from a coevolutionary point of view. We use two main concepts within coevolutionary framework; bounded instability and punctuated equilibrium, to understand t... Read More
with JURIAN EDELENBOS LASSE GERRITS MARCEL GILS
PRACTITIONER
Managing complex organizations: Complexity thinking and the science and art of management
This article is an attempt to explore the implications of the emerging science of complexity for the management of organizations. It is not intended as an introduction to complexity thinking, but rather an attempt to consider how thinking ‘comp... Read More
EDITORIAL
Editorial: Signs of development in complexity studies
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CLASSIC PAPER
An introduction to "An outline of General System Theory"
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PRACTITIONER
Confronting complexity
While complexity researchers have made considerable advances in recent years, complexity thinking, as a formal discipline, has yet to enter the mainstream. We believe that this is partially a consequence of the packaging. The relative dearth of resea... Read More
with KURT RICHARDSON
PHILOSOPHY
Measuring complexity: Things that go wrong and how to get it right
Seven problems that occur in attempts to measure complexity are pointed out as they occur in four proposed measurement techniques. Each example method is an improvement over the previous examples. It turns out, however, that none are up to the challe... Read More