Organizations as complex adaptive systems
Collaborative decision making in urban regeneration: A complex adaptive systems perspective
... of organizations included in the research, while narrowing the range of questions ...asked. Organizations targeted for the surveys were in three of the five organizational sub-sectors, namely the private, ...
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Phoenix: Complex Adaptive System of Systems (CASoS) Engineering Version 1.0
... Complex Adaptive Systems of Systems, or CASoS, are ubiquitous: they include people, organizations, cities, infrastructure, government, ecosystems, the Planet – in short, nearly ...
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Managing sudden phase transitions in complex adaptive systems: lessons from the financial crisis
... in organizations that use complex technologies as part of their operations; Crises of Decline which occur in profit seeking organizations that experience decline generally caused by internal issues ...
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Mental health services conceptualised as complex adaptive systems: what can be learned?
... One of Australia’s key responses to providing holistic ser- vices for young people aged 12–25 years is the headspace program [15]. Unlike traditional mental health service options, headspace is intended to provide ...
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International Human Resource Management Practices from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective: An Exploratory Investigation
... These seven laws can be extended to IHRM practices using the framework illustrated in Figure 1. If IHRM is examined from a CAS approach, it solves the issue of resource immobility from a RBV approach. MNEs can have both ...
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Exploring Possible Links between Professional Learning Communities and Complex Adaptive Systems.
... 10. Leadership requires new combinations of mental models, qualities and properties The combined effect of these themes is an optimization of the systemic functionality. In describing leadership in such a system, Loehr ...
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Understanding Public Service Systems: Is there a role for Complex Adaptive Systems Theory?
... argument for privatisation of public services is based on public choice theory (Arrow 1963) and institutional economics (Friedman 1964, Williamson 1975). In practice, privatisation has involved either the transfer of ...
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Examining the strategy development process through the lens of complex adaptive systems theory
... of organizations, or at least exposing the potential positive and negative limiters, to their strategic ...of organizations, their competitors, customers, suppliers and other ...
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Complex adaptive systems as metaphors for organizational management Klara Palmberg Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
... Earlier studies of process management, both in organizational settings and in the literature, have shown that process management does not seem to be the full answer to how contemporary organizations should manage ...
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Networked buffering: a basic mechanism for distributed robustness in complex adaptive systems
... in organizations are versatile in the sense that they can take on distinct roles depending on who they are collaborating with and the current challenges confront- ing their ...abiotic systems and it is ...
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On the road to carbon reduction in a food supply network: a complex adaptive systems perspective
... The research yields several lessons for organizations and managers looking to adopt environmental strategies within their supply networks. Alignment of values, understandings and visions around sustainability and ...
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Diversity And Adaptive Distributed Learning In New Wave Organizations
... on adaptive learning and interpretive abilities of Hi/e cycle (with proper cooperation of He and ...in complex systems analysis resulting in studies, modeling, and application of non-symbolic ...
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Dynamicity and Performance in Adaptive Organizations
... disentangling complex relationship as an important strength of a qualitative theory building ...Technology-based systems (hereinafter IT) ...TQM systems), such as ...(IT systems) are ...
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THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN ORGANIZATIONS
... Information systems in organizations are implemented for several ...information systems is the storage and processing of records of events (transactions) that occur during the operation of ...
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The Periphery as a Complex Adaptive Assemblage
... Despite much time and attention by academia and policy to bring about cohesion between core and peripheral regions, still there are large disparities of wealth and outcomes. Recent literature suggests that part of the ...
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Emergent and Adaptive Systems of Systems
... We have proved that any greedy trajectory for which the target gradient is met, is locally extremal, and often locally optimal. With VGL, the trajectories follow a greedy gradient, that is, they bend towards optimality ...
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Accessibility and Viability: A Complex Adaptive Systems Approach to a Wicked Problem for the Local Food Movement
... a complex system. In the loss of existing structure, a complex system, whether it is a business or an ecosystem, can adapt to changing circumstances and ...
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Complex adaptive systems (CAS): an overview of key elements, characteristics and application to management theory
... Conclusions Complex adaptive system theory usefully describes evolutionary change processes, providing insight into how the origins of quality assurance were predicated on rational reductionism and ...
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Performance of community health workers:situating their intermediary position within complex adaptive health systems
... Well-performing health workers work in ways that are responsive, fair and efficient to achieve the best health outcomes possible for clients, given available resources and circumstances [12]. Improving the per- formance ...
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COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS
... nonequilibrium systems (it should be noted, however, that a good deal of contemporary research in ecology makes little use of nonlinear ...of complex adaptive systems, studying antichaos ...
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