Issue Articles
PRACTITIONER
Sustainable supply networks: A complex systems perspective
A complex adaptive systems perspective is used to examine the sustainability of the supply network in the commercial aerospace manufacturing sector. A framework for the analysis of coevolutionary dynamical change is used which examines the structure,... Read More
with LIZ VARGA PETER ALLEN MARK STRATHERN CHRISTEN ROSE-ANDERSSEN JAMES BALDWIN KEITH RIDGWAY
CLASSIC PAPER
An introduction to "The role of somatic change in evolution"
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PHILOSOPHY
Making room for affordances
This is a conceptual paper about ‘affordances’. It is inspired by Gregory Bateson (1972) who argued that consciousness is a person/environment interactive process; we will focus on how relationships between environments and organisms lead... Read More
with HUGO LETICHE MICHAEL LISSACK
PRACTITIONER
Social and ecological transitions: Winemaking in California
With rising interest in sustainability, ecology is an increasingly important dimension of organizational research. Yet few empirical studies integrate local ecology into coevolutionary approaches where firms are key actors, and fewer still approach t... Read More
with GREIG GUTHEY GAIL WHITEMAN
EDITORIAL
Guest editorial: Complexity and environment
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ACADEMIC
A fractal approach to sustainable networks
This paper qualitatively illustrates how and why interdependence becomes significant in building coherent and sustainable network systems based upon human flourishing. Ethnographic case data of an icon tourism destination is provided to examine the s... Read More
ACADEMIC
Understood complexity: Ibsen’s ‘An Enemy of the People’—On complexity, sense-making, understanding, and exit/voice/loyalty
‘Understood complexity’ is a term of Albert Hirschman (1976) whose economic-political theory of ‘exit’ (‘vote with your feet’) versus ‘voice’ (feedback or use your influence for change) (1970), has ofte... Read More