Organization Science articles from May 1999

Organization Science archives from May 1999

Application of complexity theory to organization science.
May 1, 1999... This special issue originated with the 1996 Organization Science Winter Conference (OSWC), which set out to explore the implications of the science of complexity for the field of organization studies. Following the OSWC, a formal program...

Complexity theory and organization science. (Perspective).
May 1, 1999... Abstract Complex organizations exhibit surprising, nonlinear behavior. Although organization scientists have studied complex organizations for many years, a developing set of conceptual and computational tools makes possible new approaches...

Introduction to the special issue: Applications of complexity theory to organization science.
May 1, 1999... In crafting the call for papers for this special issue of Organization Science, the appointed editors wrote: (Organization Theory; Complexity Theory; Strategic Management) Organizational scholars seldom come to grips with nonlinear...

Organizations as adaptive systems in complex environments: the case of China.
May 1, 1999... Abstract This paper treats organizations as adaptive systems that have to match the complexity of their environments. The nature of this complexity is analyzed by linking an institutional Information-Space (I-Space) framework to the work...

Organization culture as a complex system: Balance and information in models of influence and selection.
May 1, 1999... Abstract We define the complex system underlying organizational culture by incorporating the social-psychological principles of balance and information (B-I) into models of influence (changes in attitudes as a function of interaction) and...

Through the looking glass of complexity: the dynamics of organizations as adaptive and evolving systems.
May 1, 1999... Abstract This paper examines how organization theory can benefit from advances made in the interdisciplinary field of complex systems theory (CST). Complex systems theory is not so much a single theory as a perspective for conceptualizing...

Avoiding complexity catastrophe in coevolutionary pockets: strategies for rugged landscapes.
May 1, 1999... Abstract Can firms and coevolutionary groups suffer from too much interdependent complexity? Is complexity theory an alternative explanation to competitive selection for the emergent order apparent in coevolutionary industry groups? The...

Path dependence, competition, and succession in the dynamics of scientific revolution.
May 1, 1999... Abstract What is the relative importance of structural versus contextual forces in the birth and death of scientific theories? We describe a formal dynamic model of the birth, evolution, and death of scientific paradigms based on Kuhn's...

Landscape design: designing for local action in complex worlds.
May 1, 1999... Abstract In recent years, the management literature has increasingly emphasized the importance of self-organization and "local action" in contrast to prior traditions of engineering control and design. While processes of self-organization...

Explaining complex organizational dynamics.
May 1, 1999... Abstract Studies of organizational processes can yield observations in the form of event time series that can be analyzed to determine whether they reflect periodic, chaotic, white noise, or pink noise dynamic patterns. These different...

Commentary on the Organization Science special issue on complexity.
May 1, 1999... The appearance of this special issue of Organization Science reflects--and will surely increase--the attention organizational researchers are paying to studies of "complex systems." There has been a remarkable wave of interest in this synthesis...

Application of complexity theory to Organization Science.
May 1, 1999... This special issue originated with the 1996 Organization Science Winter Conference (OSWC), which set out to explore the implications of the science of complexity for the field of organization studies. Following the OSWC, a formal program...

Introduction to the special issue: applications of complexity theory to organization science.
May 1, 1999... In crafting the call for papers for this special issue of Organization Science, the appointed editors wrote: Organizational scholars seldom come to grips with nonlinear phenomena. Instead, we tend to model phenomena as if they were...

Organization culture as a complex system: balance and information in models of influence and selection.
May 1, 1999... Abstract We define the complex system underlying organizational culture by incorporating the social-psychological principles of balance and information (B-I) into models of influence (changes in attitudes as a function of interaction) and...

Commentary on the organization science special issue on complexity.
May 1, 1999... The appearance of this special issue of Organization Science reflects--and will surely increase--the attention organizational researchers are paying to studies of "complex systems." There has been a remarkable wave of interest in this synthesis...