... performance metrics – efficiency and responsiveness – and overall organizational fit, defined as the optimal level of both, are contingent on internal and environmental complexity drivers. Findings We find that crowdsourcing is the superior choice when both dimensions of environmental complexity...

.../licences/by/4.0/legalcode Great reset Organisational changes Complexity Thematic network analysis Global crises include the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, the 2008 financial crisis, and the 2020–2022 COVID-19 pandemic, alongside climate change, technological disruption, and economic...

...Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi Purpose Based on the reception of the principle of self-organization, the core of Heinz von Foerster's operational theories, I hypothesize how Heinz von Foerster's theory can be an orientation model for the epistemological problem of complexity. I have chosen this study...

... terms such as cybernetics, cybernetics systems, complex adaptive systems, viable system models (VSM), agent-based modeling, feedback loops and complexity systems. Design/methodology/approach The analysis leveraged R Studio’s biblioshiny function to perform bibliometric mapping. Keyword searches were...

... of living things. Design/methodology/approach The design is based on the use of the relationship between abduction, epigenesis, cismogenesis and morphogenesis. Findings This paper concludes with a counter-intuitive proposal to the dominant lines of thought, distinguishing: Complexity as vital...

...Tiago F.A.C. Sigahi; Laerte Idal Sznelwar Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to map and analyze existing complexity typologies and (2) to develop a framework for characterizing complexity-based approaches. Design/methodology/approach This study was conducted in three stages: (1...

...”. The analysis of many cases of digitalization projects leads to some higher-level principles useful for description most of them – trust, umwelt and complexity. Findings Based on the analysis of empirical material, the principle of requisite trust is introduced based on the definition of trust through...

...Andersen Niels Åkerstrøm; Justine Grønbæk Pors Purpose This article explores how the Danish public sector, over time, has followed different temporal strategies in order to extend the present and handle the system's increasing complexity, thereby counteracting a tendency towards entropy...

... 2021 27 04 2021 28 04 2021 Ethics Sustainability Semantics Social systems ICT Complexity For Luhmann, semantics consists of various vocabulary sets and groups of ideas that have been developed historically to make communication plausible (Luhmann, 1980 , p. 19...

... the problem, and numerical experiments are done to analyze the complex characteristic of the system. Findings The result shows that the retailer is willing to provide a higher level of service if his risk preference is higher. The offline retail price and online retail price are positively related...

...Nicholas Weaver Purpose Theoretical generalisation provides the basis for tackling problems of service complexity, fragmentation and disrupted care pathways. Design/methodology/approach Recent mental health service transformation in Wales, United Kingdom, has been stimulated by a policy...

... elements, are maintained by agent rule carriers. At a micro scale, agents carry the rules together with the systems that they organise, though single generic rules and their carriers may also operate, this resulting in a complexity of rule structures. Meso functionality is not only determined by its...

... than a single source. Social implications The current crisis of the corona virus demonstrates the strength and the limitations of reductionist thinking. It is appropriate at this time that other methods and ideas of thinking about complexity are “visible”. Whilst there are many ideas, techniques...

...Maurice Yolles Purpose This paper has two parts, namely, Part 1 and Part 2. The purpose of this paper (Part 1) is to explain an adaptive relational paradigm that can efficaciously respond to the complex issues in wicked problems. A relational paradigm can work across the disciplines and fields...

... that potentially enables political outcomes in complex socio-political environments to be anticipated, given additional appropriate measurement criteria. Originality/value The synergy of agency and institutional theories to explain the process of development is new, as is its application to the political...

..., it will allow conceptual and empirical methods to be used that will potentially enable political outcomes in complex socio-political environments to be anticipated. Social implications The implication of this research is that it will allow empirical methods to be used that potentially enables political...

... comparing two periods in time; for the lay person, this is a means to say whether modern Irish society could be said to be “better” than that in the nineteenth century. Causality Homeostasis Autopoiesis Complexity Thomas John McCloughlin can be contacted at: tom.mccloughlin@dcu.ie ©...

... is demonstrated. Cybernetics Complexity Sociocybernetics Second-order cybernetics Emergence Autopoiesis Robert M. Cutler can be contacted at: rmc@alum.mit.edu 28 11 2017 08 03 2018 20 04 2018 27 04 2018 01 05 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald...

.... Excluded properties are informative (to the observer) in the sense that they can tell something of the complexity of the original and how the system handles that. The second are properties which are not to be found in the original, but present in the model. These are called abundant...

... and for delivering concrete courses of action. This work illustrates the relevance for policymakers to understand the dynamic complexity of social systems as the outcome of the agency of actors who take action to defend their own interests. Such actions ultimately form a complex web of interactions that drive...