Peter Allen & Steve Maguire 
The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management [PDF ebook] 

The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management is the first substantive scholarly work to provide a map of the state of art research in the growing field emerging at the intersection of complexity science and management studies. Edited and written by internationally respected scholars from management and related disciplines, the Handbook will be the definitive reference source for understanding the implications of complexity science for management research and practice.

Part One: Foundations introduces complexity science and its implications for the foundations of scientific knowledge, including management knowledge.

Part Two: Applications presents the numerous ways in which complexity science models and tools, as well as complexity thinking, are being applied to management and organizational phenomena and the insights gained as a result.

Part Three: Interfaces highlights how complexity science is transforming various non-management fields and, in so doing, creating exciting interfaces for bridging between management and related disciplines.

Содержание

Introduction — Peter Allen, Steve Maguire and Bill Mc Kelvey

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS

Key Concepts

Complexity and Systems Thinking — Yasmin Merali and Peter Allen

Complexity Science and Organization — Raymond-Alain Thietart and Bérnard Forgues

Emergence in Complex Systems — Jeffrey Goldstein

Constructing and Appreciating Complexity — Steve Maguire

Thoughts on Complexity and Computational Models — Michael J. Prietula

Epistemological Perspectives and Considerations

A Scientific Realist Epistemology for Complexity Science — Bill Mc Kelvey

Exploring Organizational Effectiveness: The Value of Complex Realism as a Frame of Reference and Systematic Comparison as a Method — David Byrne

Complexity, Post-Structuralism and Organization — Paul Cilliers

Causality and Explanation — Alicia Juarrero

Complexity and Limits to Knowledge: The Importance of Uncertainty — Peter Allen and Jean Boulton

Complex Thinking: Towards an Oblique Strategy for Dealing with the Complex — Robert Chia

Methodological Implications and Tools

Applications of Kauffman′s Co-Evolutionary NKCS Model to Management and Organization Studies — Richard Vigden and Larry Bull

Using Genetic Algorithms to Model Strategic Interaction — William Martin Tracy

Organizing at the Edge of Chaos: Insights from Action Research — Donald Maclean and Robert Macintosh

From Skew Distributions to Power-Law Science — Pierpaolo Andriani and Bill Mc Kelvey

PART TWO: APPLICATIONS

Complexity and Organizing

Complexity and Organization-Environment Relations: Revisiting Ashby′s Law of Requisite Variety — Max Boisot and Bill Mc Kelvey

The Complexity of Industrial Ecosystems: Classification and Computational Modelling — James Baldwin

Complexity and the Dynamics of Organizational Change — Glenda H. Eoyang

Complex Thought, Simple Talk: An Ecological Approach to Language-Based Change in Organizations — John Shotter and Haridimos Tsoukas

Organizational Learning and Complexity Science: Exploring the Joint Potential — Eve Mitleton-Kelly and Ben Ramalingam

Complexity and Management: A Pluralistic View — Kurt A. Richardson

Complexity and Managing

Implications of Complexity Science for the Study of Leadership — Russ Marion and Mary Uhl-Bien

A Complexity Perspective on Strategic Human Resource Management — Barry A. Colbert and Elizabeth C. Kurucz

Complexity and the Rise of Distributed Control in Operations Management — Arash Azadegan and Kevin J. Dooley

Knowledge Management and Complexity — Max Boisot

Complexity and Innovation — Pierpaolo Andriani

Complexity Science Contributions to the Field of Entrepreneurship — Benyamin B. Lichtenstein

Complexity and Competitive Advantage — Oliver Baumann and Nicolaj Siggelkow

Complexity Theory and Corporate Strategy — Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Henning Piezunka

More than a Metaphor: Complexity and the New Rules of Management — James K. Hazy

PART THREE: INTERFACES

Non-Linear Dynamical Systems Applications to Psychology and Management — Stephen J. Guastello

The Value in Between: Organizations as Adapting and Evolving Networks — Ce[ac]sar A. Hidalgo

The Use of Complexity for Policy Exploration — Steven Bankes

Complexity, Habits and Evolution — Geoffrey M. Hodgson

Economics Management and Complex Systems — Paul Ormerod

How Complexity Science Is Transforming Health Care — Brenda Zimmerman

Об авторе

Bill Mc Kelvey received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1967 and is currently Professor of Strategic
Organizing and Complexity Science at the UCLA. His book, Organizational Systematics (1982) remains the definitive treatment
of organizational evolution and taxonomy. In 1997 he became Director of the
Center for Rescuing Strategy and Organization Science (SOS). He was a founder
of UCLA’s Center for Human Complex Systems & Computational Social Science.
Recently Mc Kelvey co-edited Variations in
Organization Science (1999) and a special issue of the journal, Emergence. Forthcoming book is: Complexity
Dynamics in Organizations: Applications of Order-Creation Science
(Cambridge University Press).