The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management

PeterAllenis Head of the Complex SystemsManagement Centre in the School of Management at Cranfield University,co-Editor-in-Chief of Emergence: Complexity and Organization, Director and Co-Founderof The Complexity Society. Professor Allenhas worked for 25years on the mathematical modelling of change and innovationin urban, social, economic, financial and ecological systems, and thedevelopment of integrated systems models. He has written and edited severalbooks and published well over 200 articles in a range of fields includingecology, social science, urban and regional science, economics, systems theory,and physics.Steve Maguire,is Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization in the Faculty of Management at McGill University. He recently completed a comprehensive review (with ProfBill McKelvey and PhD students Laurent Mirabeau and Nail Oztas) of the field of“Complexity Science and Organization Studies” which appears as a newcommissioned chapter in the 2006 second edition of the our Handbook of OrganizationStudies. In addition, he co-edited (with Bill McKelvey) in 1999 a special issueof Emergence devoted to reviewing theplethora of books addressing “Complexity and Management”, and he has alsoauthored several book chapters on the topic. Bill McKelvey received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1967 and is currently Professor of StrategicOrganizing and Complexity Science at the UCLA. His book, Organizational Systematics (1982) remains the definitive treatmentof organizational evolution and taxonomy. In 1997 he became Director of theCenter for Rescuing Strategy and Organization Science (SOS). He was a founderof UCLA’s Center for Human Complex Systems & Computational Social Science.Recently McKelvey co-edited Variations inOrganization Science (1999) and a special issue of the journal, Emergence. Forthcoming book is: ComplexityDynamics in Organizations: Applications of Order-Creation Science(Cambridge University Press).

• Introduction - Peter Allen, Steve Maguire and Bill McKelveyPART ONE: FOUNDATIONSKey Concepts Complexity and Systems Thinking - Yasmin Merali and Peter AllenComplexity Science and Organization - Raymond-Alain Thietart and Bérnard ForguesEmergence in Complex Systems - Jeffrey GoldsteinConstructing and Appreciating Complexity - Steve MaguireThoughts on Complexity and Computational Models - Michael J. PrietulaEpistemological Perspectives and ConsiderationsA Scientific Realist Epistemology for Complexity Science - Bill McKelveyExploring Organizational Effectiveness: The Value of Complex Realism as a Frame of Reference and Systematic Comparison as a Method - David ByrneComplexity, Post-Structuralism and Organization - Paul CilliersCausality and Explanation - Alicia JuarreroComplexity and Limits to Knowledge: The Importance of Uncertainty - Peter Allen and Jean BoultonComplex Thinking: Towards an Oblique Strategy for Dealing with the Complex - Robert ChiaMethodological Implications and Tools Applications of Kauffman′s Co-Evolutionary NKCS Model to Management and Organization Studies - Richard Vigden and Larry BullUsing Genetic Algorithms to Model Strategic Interaction - William Martin TracyOrganizing at the Edge of Chaos: Insights from Action Research - Donald Maclean and Robert MacintoshFrom Skew Distributions to Power-Law Science - Pierpaolo Andriani and Bill McKelveyPART TWO: APPLICATIONSComplexity and OrganizingComplexity and Organization-Environment Relations: Revisiting Ashby′s Law of Requisite Variety - Max Boisot and Bill McKelveyThe Complexity of Industrial Ecosystems: Classification and Computational Modelling - James BaldwinComplexity and the Dynamics of Organizational Change - Glenda H. EoyangComplex Thought, Simple Talk: An Ecological Approach to Language-Based Change in Organizations - John Shotter and Haridimos TsoukasOrganizational Learning and Complexity Science: Exploring the Joint Potential - Eve Mitleton-Kelly and Ben RamalingamComplexity and Management: A Pluralistic View - Kurt A. RichardsonComplexity and Managing Implications of Complexity Science for the Study of Leadership - Russ Marion and Mary Uhl-BienA Complexity Perspective on Strategic Human Resource Management - Barry A. Colbert and Elizabeth C. KuruczComplexity and the Rise of Distributed Control in Operations Management - Arash Azadegan and Kevin J. DooleyKnowledge Management and Complexity - Max BoisotComplexity and Innovation - Pierpaolo AndrianiComplexity Science Contributions to the Field of Entrepreneurship - Benyamin B. LichtensteinComplexity and Competitive Advantage - Oliver Baumann and Nicolaj SiggelkowComplexity Theory and Corporate Strategy - Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Henning PiezunkaMore than a Metaphor: Complexity and the New Rules of Management - James K. HazyPART THREE: INTERFACESNon-Linear Dynamical Systems Applications to Psychology and Management - Stephen J. GuastelloThe Value in Between: Organizations as Adapting and Evolving Networks - Ce[ac]sar A. HidalgoThe Use of Complexity for Policy Exploration - Steven BankesComplexity, Habits and Evolution - Geoffrey M. HodgsonEconomics Management and Complex Systems - Paul OrmerodHow Complexity Science Is Transforming Health Care - Brenda Zimmerman