The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management

Introduction - Peter Allen, Steve Maguire and Bill McKelvey PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS Key Concepts Complexity and Systems Thinking - Yasmin Merali and Peter Allen Complexity Science and Organization - Raymond-Alain Thietart and Bernard 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 McKelvey 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 McKelvey PART TWO: APPLICATIONS Complexity and Organizing Complexity and Organization-Environment Relations: Revisiting Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety - Max Boisot and Bill McKelvey 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