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 through mathematical models and simulations, Emergence: Complexity & Organization explores the emerging understanding of human systems that is informed by this research.
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- The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E Shannon on page 251, and page 321
- Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form and Action by Nitin Nohria on page 105, and page 107
- Science and Technology (Oxford First Encyclopedia) by Andrew Langley on page 173, and page 179
- The Economy As An Evolving Complex System (Santa Fe Institute Series) by Philip W. Anderson on page 103, and page 105
- Handbook of Organization Studies by Stewart R Clegg on page 103, and page 104
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