Scholars in organizational disciplines have devoted increasing attention to the activity systems perspective of organizations, which conceives of firms as a web of interdependent activities. According to this view, managers must make central choices about the number and extent of...

Severe climatic conditions, low population density, lack of infrastructure leave as the only possible nodular economic development of Arctic territories of the Russian Federation. In this case, a natural question arises: how to define points of growth, how to delineate those "patches of economic...

Repairable standby system’s study and analysis is an important topic in reliability. Analytical techniques become very complicated and unrealistic especially for modern complex systems. There have been attempts in the literature to evolve more realistic techniques using simulation approach for...

Since Lėon Walras neoclassical economists hold an inalterable belief in a unique and stable equilibrium for the economic system which however remains to this day unobservable. Yet that belief is the corner stone of other theories such as the "Efficient Market Hypothesis" as well as the...

Purpose – Eighteen Mittelstand companies are studied in Germany to develop a better understanding about drivers of enterprise systems complexity (ESC), as well as its multi-faceted conceptualization. Dimensions and measures for complexity and its antecedents are derived using a grounded theory...

This paper examines various Austrian theories of entrepreneurship through the lens of complexity theory, more specifically via the concept of a dancing fitness landscape (Beinhocker, 1999, 2007; Kauffman, 1988; Phelan, 1998). Problems in many fields (including economics) can be characterized as...