Complexity scholarship has flourished in organization science for many years, with
important implications for managers, organizations, and networks. But the academic …

Complexity science has the potential to explain emergence; unfortunately most
management applications of complexity rarely define emergence. We develop a typology …

The aim of this article is to ask,“Whither complexity science?” On the face of it, it may seem
strange to ask such a question. We live in a complicated world, which becomes more …

What contribution do the social sciences make to the question:“What is complexity science?”
There is a temptation, a desire, to argue the case for a particular complexity science; to …

This chapter explores the phenomena of emergence in complex systems in order to review
and comment on organizational research applications of the idea. First, six prototypes of …

My goal is to extend this paper, generalize it to Organization Theory (rather than focus on co-
evolution), and submit it to Academy of Management Review. However, I NEED YOUR …

The need for a special issue of Emergence on the question “What is complexity science?” is
disturbing on several levels. At one level, one could be forgiven for thinking that the …

European Management Review (2007) 4, 67-72. doi: lO. lO57/palgrave. emr. l500081 he
articles in this issue make use of the 'new science of complexity'. To some, complexity …

Complexity science reframes leadership by focusing on the dynamic interactions between
all individuals, explaining how those interactions can, under certain conditions, produce …

Organizational scholars seldom come to grips with nonlinear phenomena. Instead, we tend
to model phenomena as if they were linear in order to make them tractable, and we tend to …