Many organizations are striving to survive and remain competitive in the current uncertain and rapidly changing economic environment. Businesses must innovate to face this volatility and maintain their competitiveness. Organizational learning is a complex process with many interrelated elements linking knowledge management with organizational innovation. In this paper we use several theories (i...

This article examines applications of complexity theory within the behavioral and social sciences. Specific attention is given to the fundamental characteristics of complex adaptive systems (CAS)--such as individuals, groups, and societies-including the underlying structure of CAS, the internal dynamics of evolving CAS, and how CAS respond to their environment. Examples drawn from psychology, s...

I n this introductory note, we describe the motivation for this special issue on complex systems. We begin by noting the potential management opportunities offered by recent advances in complexity science. After defining the nature of complex systems and the many ways they are expressed in organizations and markets, we briefly describe the main tools and concepts of complexity theory. We close ...

knowledge transfer was the most important factors of success for organizations in today's complex and changing environment as one of aspects of knowledge management. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation by transfer the employee’s knowledge in social security organizations in kerman. the method research is descriptiv...

as spending on it rises steeply, organizations become increasingly technology-dependent and, consequently, they become highly vulnerable to the risks of it failure. the latest report on the failure of many complex it projects to deliver key benefits on time and to target cost and specification was published jointly by the royal academy of engineering and the british computer society. one of the...

Systems Intelligence attempts to combine the holistic orientation of systems approaches to an appreciation of the everyday subtleties which continually mould the systems we are a part of. George H. Mead’s theory of the emergence of individuals and social organizations holds that neither individuals nor organizations are stored anywhere but that both are continuously being formed by each other. ...

Basic evidences on non-profit making and other forms of benevolent-based organizations reveal a rough partition of members between some pure consumers of the public good (free-riders) and benevolent individuals (cooperators). We study the relationship between the community size and the level of cooperation in a simple model where the utility of joining the community is proportional to its size....

In their introduction to this symposium, Biesta and Osberg argue that complexity theory has pointed to the fundamental unpredictability of the real, and to the ways in which educational practices cannot be controlled. This is in line with Freud’s comment that education is an impossible profession because it cannot mandate or master the future. It also echoes Derrida on undecidability and respon...

Complex dynamical networks consisting of many components that interact and produce each other are difficult to understand, especially, when new components may appear. In this paper we outline a theory to deal with such systems. The theory consists of two parts. The first part introduces the concept of a chemical organization as a closed and mass-maintaining set of components. This concept allow...

This paper, will explore potential contributions from the study of complexity theory to the area of pervasiveness of information systems. It offers insights for enriching traditional approaches of information system design that could lead to better framework for supporting pervasiveness in complex environment. Complex environment makes new problems for pervasiveness because it is hard for users...