Emergence: Complexity & Organization - 2010 Annual - Peter M Allen - Books - Isce Publishing - 9781938158056 - January 15, 2013
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Emergence: Complexity & Organization - 2010 Annual

Peter M Allen

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Publisher Marketing: Organizations of all kinds struggle to understand, adapt, respond and manipulate changing conditions in their internal and external environments. Approaches based on the causal, linear logic of mechanistic sciences and engineering continue to play an important role, given people's ability to create order. But such approaches are valid only within carefully circumscribed boundaries. They become counterproductive when the same organizations display the highly reflexive, context-dependent, dynamic nature of systems in which agents learn and adapt and new patterns emerge. The rapidly expanding discussion about complex systems offers important contributions to the integration of diverse perspectives and ultimately new insights into organizational effectiveness. There is increasing interest in complexity in mainstream business education, as well as in specialist business disciplines such as knowledge management. Real world systems can't be completely designed, controlled, understood or predicted, even by the so-called sciences of complexity, but they can be more effective when understood as complex systems. While many scientific disciplines explore complexity principally through abstract mathematical models and simulations, Emergence: Complexity & Organization explores the emerging understanding of human systems from both the 'hard' quantitative sciences and the 'soft' qualitative perspectives. This 2010 Annual includes articles from Goktu Morcol, Lynne Hamill, Mika Aaltonen, Glenda Eoyang, Lasse Gerrits, Jean Boulton, and many more, that explore a range of complexity-related topics from philosophical concerns through to the practical application of complexity ideas, concepts and frameworks in human organizations. Also included are a series of four reproductions of classic papers in the fields of complexity and systems, each with critical introductions that explore their modern relevance: "The Science of 'Muddling' Through" by Charles E. Lindblom (originally published in 1959); "Why is Economics not an Evolutionary Science?" by Thorstein Veblen (originally published in 1898); "The Theory of Emergence" by Reuben Ablowitz (originally published in 1939), and; "Determinism and Life" by Conrad Hal Waddington (originally published in 1972). Contributor Bio:  Allen, Peter M Peter M. Allen is Emeritus Professor in Complex Systems at Cranfield School of Management. Contributor Bio:  Richardson, Kurt A Richardson, Department of Physics, Southampton.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released January 15, 2013
ISBN13 9781938158056
Publishers Isce Publishing
Pages 642
Dimensions 178 × 254 × 35 mm   ·   1.32 kg
Editor Allen, Peter M
Editor Goldstein, Jeffrey A
Editor Richardson, Kurt A

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