Part I: Understanding Complexity and the Economy -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Complexity 3.0 -- Chapter 3 Simplicity and complexity -- Chapter 4 Definitions of complexity -- ­ Chapter 5 Economic growth, complexity and institutional conflicts -- Part II: Organizational Complexity --...

Purpose The article extends the distinction of semantic from syntactic labour to comprehend all forms of mental labour. It answers a critique from de Fremery and Buckland, which required envisaging mental labour as a differentiated spectrum. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a...

Purpose This study demonstrates how individual paradigms implicate the questions asked, methods used and results drawn in association with a common object of study in human information behavior (HIB) research – the relationship between uncertainty and decision-making....

Economic systems produce robust statistical patterns in key sate variables including prices and incomes. Statistical equilibrium methods explain the distributional proper- ties of state variables as arising from specific institutional and behavioral postulates. Two traditions have developed in...