.... Firm innovation Board characteristics Qualitative comparative analysis Complexity theory Yexin Liu can be contacted at: liuyexin1990@163.com 27 06 2023 21 12 2023 30 04 2024 18 06 2024 31 08 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing...

.... Design/methodology/approach – The paper synthesizes complexity theory and the practical classroom and case writing experiences of the author into a framework. Findings – A narrow view of the impact of case studies severely limits their widespread adoption. Rather than treating a case study...

... analysis. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Decision making Complexity theory Medical care Stress Injuries Doctors Trauma physicians' are well trained in diagnostic reasoning and rely heavily on research of other scientists to create structures for learning or to adapt...

... initial premise. Consequently we should specify what meaning we were employing and how it relates, connects, to other meanings. Social construction Entrepreneurship theory Ontology Epistemology Complexity theory Entrepreneurship as a complex adaptive system Entrepreneurs Adaptive system theory...

...David Lamond; David A. Lane; Martin Down Purpose The paper aims to explore themes in Drucker's work which provide messages for current turbulent times. Based on a literature review of both Drucker's work and contemporary studies in the field of complexity theory the paper's aim is to explore...

.... Originality/value This paper is of benefit to managers and strategists by emphasising a new way to consider the future management and strategies of their companies. Since businesses and markets are complex adaptive systems, using complexity theory to increase understanding of how to cope in complex...

.... Originality/value The paper brings together ideas from a diverse range of fields (including autopoiesis, complexity theory, and systems) and applies them to a highly significant topic. According to Vanderstraeten (2005) , it is important that society becomes aware of the way it engineers environmental...

... of complexity theory. Design/methodology/approach Complexity theory places an emphasis on addressing how dynamic non‐linear systems can be represented and modelled utilising computational tools and techniques to draw out inherent system dynamics. In doing so, the use of fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM...

... Through the application of Suh's complexity theory an understanding of the causes of complexity in the specific context of a mass customization environment is developed. This facilitates the identification of the strategies that are adequate to tackle the problems induced by complexity. Findings...

... of complexity theory. Design/methodology/approach The paper begins by showing that the concept of dualities is consistent with complexity‐thinking. In addition, when applied to organizing forms, dualities represent a practical way of affecting an organization's balance between chaos and order. Thus, when...

...”), social engineering does not work. And it never has. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Complexity theory General management A company may operate successfully for many years improving on what it already knows how to do. Aided by technology, the organisation improves performance...

...Richard Wilding; Miguel Pina e Cunha; Joao Vieira da Cunha Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the creation of a complexity theory of strategy by integrating a number of ideas that have previously been explored independently in the strategy literature, namely improvisation...

..., organizational strategies and organizational learning. Findings Consideration of the type of learning undertaken by companies to advance in the direction of strategies oriented to sustainability. This is analyzed in light of the complexity theory, showing the need of transformations in the individual values...

... research. In this way the reality of complexity, context and persona can be added to the research agenda. Evert Gummesson can be contacted at: eg@fek.su.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Qualitative research Management research Complexity theory For lack of understanding...

... perspectives, preferably with two or more. Chaos theory Complexity theory Decision making Ethics Politics Psychology Fractal geometry can vividly portray the behaviour of chaotic systems (Anderla et al., 1997). Essentially, fractals show that evidently irregular shapes are, on closer...