Warren Weaver, writing about the function that science should have in mankind's developing
future, ideas and ideals, proposed to classify scientific problems into 'problems of …

If organisations are seen as complex evolving systems, co-evolving within a social
'ecosystem', then our thinking about strategy and management changes. With the changed …

If organisations are seen as complex evolving systems (CES), then the approaches,
methods and tools that we use to study them and to help them evolve need to be appropriate …

Organisations are classically viewed as entities that are purpose driven with a structural
form, exhibiting a certain degree of order and determinism. Such a linear “top-down …

Together, theories of complexity and interdisciplinarity offer a way of thinking about our
world that creates meaning and order while embracing fragmentation and recognizing the …

Complexity is a relatively new discipline with immense power to change our way of thinking
and seeing the world. This, in turn, can change the way we? manage?, design and structure …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to propose a way of asking about organizational
conceptions. Some years ago, Edgar Morin proposed the paradigm of complexity as the one …

This chapter focuses on the subjects that are traditionally covered by philosophy of science,
ie the ontology and epistemology underlying subsequent scientific approaches. Philosophy …

Systems theory has served us well and will continue to provide managers and students of
organisations with metaphors, terminology and explanations about how organisations …

In this article a general description of complex systems is provided. This is used to analyze
to what extent we can understand complex things. It is argued that understanding is an …