Understanding why some human populations remain persistently poor remains a significant challenge for both the social and natural sciences. The extremely poor are generally reliant on their immediate natural resource base for subsistence and suffer high rates of mortality due to parasitic and...

Financial institutions form multi-layer networks of contracts among each other and exposures to common assets. As a result, the default probability of one institution depends on the default probability of all the other institutions in the network. Here, we show how small errors on the knowledge...

We are currently heading towards wider and faster scenarios. This kind of evolution we are getting through is also due to decrease of “dead woods” (made up of useless infrastructures, lazy employees and parasites) due to “bipartisan” public reforms already implemented since the early...

The aim of this paper is to pave the way towards the inclusion of mainstream sociological approaches (based on Luhmann's approach) for the studies of firms-organizations. In social sciences we can observe that the theoretic consequences of a paradigm shift is significantly represented by the...

In 2012 the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), for the first time in the history of large-scale assessments, included a new type of problems called “interactive problems”. This article will analyze the problems. The research area behind it is the psychology of complex...

One of the frustrations of working in the exciting area of “complexity science in organizations” is that there is no commonly accepted definition of what this term means (White et al., 1997). Definitions have been offered, such as “complexity is a watchword for a new way of thinking about...

Complex problem solving takes place for reducing the barrier between a given start state and an intended goal state with the help of cognitive activities and behavior. Start state, intended goal state, and barriers prove complexity, change dynamically over time, and can be partially...

At this year's conference two panel discussions have been organized to address the most recent financial crisis and the associated policy implications. We recommend that you highlight your program schedule to ensure your participation in these engaging panel sessions

Die Schweiz ist eines der OECD-Länder, in welchem die Gesundheitskosten schneller wachsen als das BIP. Aufgrund des staatlichen und wirtschaftlichen Veränderungsdrucks stehen Entscheidungsträger aktuell vor der Aufgabe, Veränderungsprojekte mit hoher technischer sowie sozialer Komplexität...