Complexity theory: An overview with potential applications for the social sciences

JR Turner, RM Baker - Systems, 2019 - mdpi.com
Systems theory has been challenged in the recent literature due to its perceived
disconnection from today's research and practice demands. Moving away from the …

Complexity and adaptivity in supply networks: Building supply network theory using a complex adaptive systems perspective

SD Pathak, JM Day, A Nair, WJ Sawaya… - Decision …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Supply networks are composed of large numbers of firms from multiple interrelated
industries. Such networks are subject to shifting strategies and objectives within a dynamic …

[图书][B] Adaptive supply chain management

D Ivanov, B Sokolov - 2009 - books.google.com
The recent transformation of the world's economic environment necessitates the re-thinking
of supply chain management (SCM) goals and decision-making techniques. Adaptive …

Disaster resilience and complex adaptive systems theory: Finding common grounds for risk reduction

C Coetzee, D Van Niekerk, E Raju - Disaster Prevention and …, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the emergence of resilience into the
contemporary discourse of disaster risk. As a counter position to the current status quo in …

A qualitative model of patterns of resilience and vulnerability in responding to a pandemic outbreak with system dynamics

T Kontogiannis - Safety Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Covid-19 has revealed the fragility of healthcare, government, social support and economic
systems. The complexity of interactions and the tight coupling of these systems have …

Linking complexity and sustainability theories: Implications for modeling sustainability transitions

C Peter, M Swilling - Sustainability, 2014 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we deploy a complexity theory as the foundation for integration of different
theoretical approaches to sustainability and develop a rationale for a complexity-based …

[图书][B] Nonlinear Science and Warfare: Chaos, complexity and the US military in the information age

ST Lawson - 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
This book examines the United States military's use of concepts from non-linear science,
such as chaos and complexity theory, in its efforts to theorise information-age warfare. Over …

[PDF][PDF] Systems theory and complexity: Part 4-The evolution of systems thinking

KA Richardson, G Midgley - EMERGENCE-MAHWAH-LAWRENCE …, 2007 - academia.edu
Introduction The main focus throughout this series has been the consideration of general
systems ideas from a complex systems perspective. This task in itself is hopefully useful to …

Supply chain risk management: bullwhip effect and ripple effect

D Ivanov, D Ivanov - Structural dynamics and resilience in supply chain …, 2018 - Springer
Uncertainty is a system property characterizing the incompleteness of our knowledge about
the system and the conditions of its development. Uncertainty is a polysemic term (poly …

[图书][B] Musterbrüche in Geschäftsmodellen: Ein Bezugsrahmen für innovative Strategie-Konzepte

T Umbeck - 2009 - books.google.com
Tobias Umbeck untersucht anhand von neun Fallbeispielen aus der Luftfahrtbranche, wie
sich Muster im eigenen Geschäftsmodell gezielt analysieren, bewerten und sinnvoll brechen …