Year
2011
Authors
Abstract
The second Handbook chapter on the Foundations of Complexity Science focuses on the organizational implications of major complexity schools of thought. Among those schools of thought, self-organizing systems, deterministic chaos, path dependence, complex adaptive systems and the emergent “selectionist” contexts view are studied. Organizational implications cover approaches such as cellular automata, NK modelling, agent-based modelling, and genetic algorithm as applied to organization studies. They address issues about the existence of a pre-existing order vs a random search for order and situations where complexity leads to simplicity and vice versa. The chapter concludes with a set of propositions applicable to low-dimensional and high-dimensional systems.
THIETART, R.A. et FORGUES, B. (2011). Complexity Science and Organization. Dans: The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management. 1st ed. SAGE Publications, pp. 53-64.