COMPLEXITY THEORY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF NETWORKS

COMPLEXITY THEORY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF NETWORKS
Proceedings of the Workshop on Organisational Networks as Distributed Systems of Knowledge

University of Lecce, Italy, 2001

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	vii
Introduction
COMPLEXITY THEORY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF NETWORKS PIERPAOLO ANDRIANI and GIUSEPPINA PASSIANTE	3
Part 1: Complexity Theory
A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING COMPLEX SYSTEMS PAUL CILLIERS	23
BIZSIM: THE WORLD OF BUSINESS — IN A BOX JOHN L. CASTI	28
Part 2: Management and Leadership in the Network Economy
"SIMPLE RULES" FOR IMPROVING CORPORATE IQ: BASIC LESSONS FROM COMPLEXITY SCIENCE BILL MCKELVEY	39
EXPLORING NEW BUSINESS INNOVATION LEADERSHIP PARADIGMS ALDO ROMANO	53
NEW ECONOMY, COMPLEXITY AND MANAGEMENT ENZO BADALOTTI	59
COMPLEXITY SCIENCE ON COEVOLVING BUSINESS WITH RAPID CHANGE SUSANNE KELLY	65
A COMPLEXITY AND DARWINIAN APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT WITH FAILURE AVOIDANCE AS THE KEY TOOL RON WILLIS	74
TREASURY OPERATIONS IN A MULTI-NATIONAL OIL COMPANY: DIALOGUE ON THE METHODOLOGY OF USING NATURAL EXPERIMENTS IN COMPLEX EVOLVING SYSTEMS EVE MITLETON-KELLY and MARCUS SPEH BIRKENKRAHE	89
AN INCUBATOR OF BUSINESS INNOVATION LEADERSHIP: THE EBMS EXPERIMENT GIUSEPPINA PASSIANTE	102
THE "VIRTUALNESS" STRATEGY OF THE E-BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SCHOOL VALERIO ELIA	119
Part 3: The Management of Networks
COMPLEXITY IN THE NEXT ECONOMY ROBIN WOOD	139
A POST INDUSTRIAL NETWORK ORGANISATION RICHARD HALL	149
CAREERS, COMMUNITIES, AND COMPLEXITY THEORY MICHAEL B ARTHUR, ROBERT J DEFILLIPPI and VALERIE J LINDSAY	155
DEVELOPING NEW PRODUCTS BY COMMUNITY OF DEVELOPERS IN THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY CHRIS RUSSELL	163
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