Guest Edited by: YSANNE CARLISLE, ELIZABETH MCMILLAN
Issue Articles
GUEST EDITORIAL
Guest editors' introduction
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ACADEMIC
Innovation in organizations from a complex adaptive systems perspective
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ACADEMIC
Preliminary theoretical framework for the study of business ecosystems
In this paper a preliminary theoretical framework for the study of business ecosystems is constructed. It is based on theories from the fields of complexity and evolutionary economics. Important concepts include the following: coevolution, self-organ... Read More
PRACTITIONER
A framework for knowledge innovation
The study of various knowledge creation approaches (like operations research, systems thinking, cybernetics, complexity, knowledge management, and scientific method) leads to the development of a framework describing a sufficient capability for trans... Read More
PRACTITIONER
Facilitating learning and innovation in organizations using complexity science principles
Difficulties have been encountered in communicating the meaning and value of complexity science principles to people in organizations. While one school of thought in the literature holds that it is not necessary to attempt to communicate the principl... Read More
with FIONA LETTICE MARK LEMON
PRACTITIONER
Innovations in the Dutch polder
Recently, a new initiative has entered the Dutch policy-arena of spatial planning, water management and nature preservation: the so-called Community of Practice (COP). Within such a COP actors with very different backgrounds (experts, inhabitants, of... Read More
with JURIAN EDELENBOS
PHILOSOPHY
Complexity theory and continental philosophy - part 2
In this paper I introduce features of the context of argument related to the status of complexity theory and then move towards a description of Ricoeur’s theorizations on metaphor. I extend the discussion of Ricoeur’s hermeneutic by compa... Read More
CLASSIC PAPER
An introduction to "The philosophic functions of emergence"
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BOOK REVIEW
A review of "Results: Keep What's Good, Fix What's Wrong, and Unlock Great Performance"
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BOOK REVIEW
A review of "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century"
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