The recent increase in research collaboration creates the need to better understand the interaction between individual researchers and the collaborative team. The paper elaborates the conceptualization of research teams as complex systems which emerge out of the local interactions of individual...

Since the early 1990s, the global effort to mitigate climate change has been framed primarily as an environmental law problem aimed at harm prevention. As the shortcomings of this approach have become increasingly clear, a number of scholars have begun to examine energy policy reform as a...

New product development (NPD) is challenging, as it involves mastering new technologies by coordinating appropriate resources efficiently and effectively. Established models of NPD focus on structuring, planning and ordering the innovation process but do not account for complexity and...

The decision support applications available on today market use to combine the decision analysis of historical databased on On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) products or spreadsheet pivot tables with some new reporting facilities as alerts or key performance indicators available in portal...

When examining the reasons why NPD projects are late, over budget, or why they suffer from performance problems, complexity is often directly linked to the results achieved. While some research has been done in the complexity area, more research is needed to assess the role that complexity plays...

Hospital Emergency Departments (ED's) typically use triage systems that classify and prioritize patients almost exclusively in terms of their need for timely care. Using a combination of analytic and simulation models, we demonstrate that adding an up-front estimate of patient complexity to...

Complexity science ideas have recently begun to be applied to organizational dynamics. This set of ideas, primarily learned from the natural sciences, appears to hold great promise for improving organizational functioning. At this early stage, it has not been obvious how to apply some of these...

Commentary an analysis of the problem whether an objector to a shareholders’ derivative class action settlement must intervene in order to appeal from a court order approving the settlement. The article focuses on a case pending before the Supreme Court that raises this issue: California...

Commentary and analysis of the Report of the Working Group on Mass Torts of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, issued February 15, 1999. The Report includes three studies from the Federal Judicial Center, as well as potential solutions for consideration. The various appendices to the Report...