From: Kurt Richardson [mailto:
kurt@kurtrichardson.com]
Dear All
Because of the growing interest in Managing the Complex IV I am very
pleased to extend the deadline for abstracts until August 31st, 2002.
For those of you who are still deciding whether or not to attend I have
included a selection of those papers already submitted to hopefully whet
your appetite. As you will see from the list of authors this is going
to be a truly international event and the biggest Managing the Complex
conference to date. We at ISCE and FGCU hope that you will choose to
join us in December.
A registration form will be sent out in September along with full
conference details such as draft agenda, travel arrangements,
accomodation, etc. It would help the organizers immensely however if
you would let us know of your interest in attending beforehand.
Please feel free to forward the conference details to any of your
colleagues you think may have an interest in this complex event.
Kind regards
Caroline Richardson
Conference Secretary
Kurt Richardson
ISCE Associate Director (Research)
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mtc4@kurtrichardson.com
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Papers submitted for consideration thus far include:
Of Ants and Men: Self-Organized Teams in Human and Insect Organizations
Carl Anderson - School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia
Institute of Technology, USA
Elizabeth McMillan - Centre for Complexity and Change, The Open
University,UK
Agent-Based Models of a Banking Network as an Example of a Turbulent
Environment: the Deliberate vs. Emergent Strategy Debate Revisited
Duncan Robertson - Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK
From the Ashes: A Report of a Current Project to Monitor the Development
of Private Enterprise and Efforts at Developing Social Entrepreneurship
in the
Balkans
John O'del - Rhode Island College, USA
J. Boudreaux - School for International Training, USA
Exploring Innovation through Complex Micro-interactions
Christine Woods - The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Barbara Simpson - The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Simplifying Organization-Wide Creativity - A New Mental Model
Min Basadur - Basadur Applied Creativity, Canada
Garry Gelade - Business Analytic and Basadur Applied Creativity, UK
'Demand-Drivers' for and 'Entry-Barriers' to Using Complexity and
Systems Thinking in Commercial Study Settings on Innovation-Related and
High-Technology Related Issues
Walter Aigner - HiTec Marketing, Austria
An Integrative Neurological Model Of Consciousness: The Case for
Quantum-Determinism
Ian R. Weinberg
Claudius P. van Wyk
Complexity Theory and Al-Qaeda: A Confirming Qualitative Case Study of
Complexity Propositions
Russ Marion - School of Education, Clemson University, USA
Mary Uhl-Bien - College of Business Administration, University of
Central
Florida, USA
Complex Adaptive Pedagogy for Transforming Student Learning: Educating
Business Students for the New World Disorder
Brian Lofman - Department of International Business, Rollins College,
USA
Organizations, Management, Complexity, and Systems: A New Business
Paradigm
Rexford H. Draman - Graduate School of Business, St. Edwards University,
USA
Accountability in a Complex World
James Falconer - Eagna Research and Consulting, Canada
Socially complex organisations, Self-organization and Sustainability
Tomas Backström, Monica Bjerlöv and Peter Docherty
National Institute for Working Life, Sweden
Management of Decentralized Supply Networks from a Complexity
Perspective
Fredrik Nilsson - Dep. Design Sciences, Lund University, Sweden
Jonas Waidringer - Transek AB, Sweden
Differences in Additive Complexity Between Biological Evolution and the
Progress of Human Knowledge
Elie Geisler - Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of
Technology, USA
Bruce Ritter - Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of
Technology, USA
The Sustainability of Competitive Performance in Dynamic Environments:
An Application of a RBV perspective to Agent Based Simulation
Desmond Ng - Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta, Canada
A Study of Practitioner Pattern Reading: Detecting Self-Organizing
Patterns in Organizational Fields
Pamela Buckle - Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary,
Canada
Understanding Public Service Systems: Is There a Role for Complex
Adaptive
Systems Theory?
Mary Lee Rhodes - School of Business Studies, Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland
At the Crossroads of Paradigms: Mexican Organizations in Transition
José G. Vargas - Centro Universitario del Sur, Universidad de
Guadalajara, México
Multi-level Complexity in the Management of Knowledge
Lisa Beesley - School of Marketing and Management, Griffith
University,Australia
The "Other" Purpose of Organizations
Ken Baskin
ICAS: The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System
David Bennet and Alex Bennet - Mountain Quest Institute
Business as Agent of World Benefit
Mary Grace Neville - Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western
Reserve University, USA
David Cooperrider - Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western
Reserve University, USA
Reducing Complexity in Conceptual Thinking Using Challenge Mapping
Min Basadur - Basadur Applied Creativity, Canada
Strategic Thinking in Complex Adaptive System: A Case Study of the
Passive Component Industry
Tsai, Stephen D - Department of Business Management, National Sun
Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Chiang, Hong-Quei - Department of Business Management, National Sun
Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
What is the Role of a Positive Ethical Climate in a Complex Adaptive
System?
Ann E. Mills - Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia, USA
Mary V. Rorty - Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University, USA
Complexity v. Transformation: The New Leadership Revisited
Russ Marion - School of Education, Clemson University, USA
Mary Uhl-Bien - College of Business Administration, University of
Central Florida, USA
The Death of the Expert?
Kurt Richardson, Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, USA
Andrew Tait, Strategic Leadership Sciences (Europe), UK
Towards Critical 'Best Practice': A Complex Systems View of Project
Management
Kurt Richardson, Lynn Crawford and Terry Cooke-Davis
Managing the Complex IV
Conference on Complex Systems and the Management of Organizations
First Calling Notice
7-10 December 2002, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL
Call for Participants
I am writing to you today to inform you about the upcoming three-day
Managing the Complex IV conference to be held this coming winter in Fort
Myers, FL and hosted by the Institute for the Study of Coherence and
Emergence in conjunction with the College of Business at Florida Gulf
Coast University. The aim of this event is to further explore the
implications of complex systems thinking for the management of
organizations of all shapes and forms.
The emerging theory of complex systems research has sparked a growing
movement to reinvigorate management. Theory, research, practice, and
education can all benefit by adopting a more dynamic, systemic,
cognitive, and holistic approach to the management process. As interest
in the study of complex systems has grown, a new vocabulary is emerging
to describe discoveries about wide-ranging and fundamental phenomena.
Complexity theory research has brought new insights and new ways of
discussing the many issues related to management and organization
science.
A shared language based on the insights of complexity can have an
important role in a management context. The use of complexity metaphors
can change the
way managers think about the problems they face. For example, instead of
competing in a game or a war, managers of a complexity thinking
enterprise are trying to find their way on an ever changing, ever
turbulent landscape. Such a conception of their organizations' basic
task can, in turn, change the day-to-day decisions made by management.
The most productive applications of complexity insights have to do with
new possibilities for innovation in organizations. These new
possibilities require new ways of thinking, but old models of thinking
persist long after they are productive. New ways of thinking don't just
happen; they require new models which have to be learned. The primary
aim of Managing the Complex IV is to helping both practicing managers
and academics acquire, understand and examine these new mental models.
Call for Papers and Posters
Attendees are encouraged to present papers to the assembled streams.
Suggested topics include:
· Understanding complexity and complex adaptive systems, such as
the economy, business, and the marketplace.
· Developing techniques for organizations to examine their
models, metaphors, and beliefs, and to adapt new ones as conditions
change.
· Creating strategies for businesses to interact with the
unexpected, accidental, and ambiguous in their environments.
· Resolving the needs for both stability and creativity, and the
institutional tensions between "authorized" and "innovative."
· Applications of psychology, philosophy, semiotics, or cognitive
science to the management of organizations.
· Complex systems implications for business process and strategy.
· The relationship between linear and non-linear management
practices.
· The development of new organizational forms.
· The development of new patterns of work.
· Managerial cognition.
· Knowledge management.
· Organizational learning.
All paper submissions will be considered for publication in the
international management journal Emergence, and/or publication in an
edited book of papers to be published by Quorum Books.
There are also a limited number of opportunities for participants to
host short 2-3 hour workshops on specific topics. If you would like to
arrange such an event then please send a brief description to Caroline
Richardson (
mtc4@kurtrichardson.com).
For further details please goto: http://isce.edu/site/mtcIV.html