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There is an argument that says that research in Public Administration is always about social complexity. This argument is true. There is also an argument that says that Public Administration is...

There is an argument that research and practice in Public Administration always involves social complexity, and therefore it can be informed by complexity. There is also an argument that Public...

We are living in a time in which innovation has become as frequent and unavoidable as never before. Innovative societies and economies, however, do not require narrow specializations of professions...

Emergence: Complexity & Organization (14.4) - Complexity & Public PolicyAuthor: Simone LandiniPublisher: Isce PublishingPublication Date: Jan 10, 2013Number of Pages: 182 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Organizations of all kinds struggle to understand, adapt, respond and manipulate changing conditions in their internal and external environments. Approaches based on the causal, linear logic of...

The Global Economy that sustains the civilized world is destroying the biosphere. As a result, civilization, like the Titanic, is on a collision course with disaster. But changing course via the body...

The special character of Globalization: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow is the inclusion of a broad international and multicultural spectrum of issues. The approach is systemic. Political, economic,...

The disintegration of the USSR was one of the greatest management failures of the twentieth century, but is never considered from that standpoint. This monograph uniquely does so, using insights from...

This short book examines the need for change in human systems and provides an opportunity for achieving lasting, sustainable change. This book it set out in three chapters which address: the...

Organizational life has inevitably felt the knock-on effect of the economic downturn and the unease that has accompanied it. High unemployment, redundancy and fear for the future are commonplace...

Why is it that many large public projects run out of control in terms of scope, budget and time? How can it be explained that urban regeneration programs are highly successful in one neighborhood but...

When the author, Rob Noyes Smith attended a Navy SEAL funeral with his Navy SEAL son his perspective shifted. Through the pain and sorrow of what he saw around him he decided "enough;" Why do we...

Our world today has become so globalized, so socially and technologically complex that current ideas and institutions haven't enabled us to address our most pressing problems. From global warming to...

The Complex Buddhist - Doing Good in a Challenging World bridges and interweaves complexity, social innovation and Buddhist practice and thinking. It is within the co-mingled fluid states of each...

Since Richard N. Knowles's first papers on Self-Organizing Leadership and the Process Enneagram(c) published in Emergence: Complexity & Organization (Volume 3, Number 4, and Volume 4, Number 2) in...

This work is to honour Professor Peter M. Allen, a seminal figure in the foundation and development of Complexity Science in human systems. From before the time of his joining Nobel Prize winner Ilya...