This chapter examines the nature of ethics and economics as a single subject of investigation, and uses a complex systems approach to characterize the nature of that subject. It then distinguishes mainstream economic and social economic visions of it, where the former assumes that market...

New paradigms of Internet Governance (IG) recognize the contribution and role of governments, private organizations, civil society and other communities. The borderless and distributed architecture of the Internet substantially differentiates IG from traditional governance, challenging the...

The background of the article is Marxism's lack of a notion of management. The article suggests that anyone rethinking capitalism should pause for a moment to check on the evidence of such a notion. It seems necessary because today's theory of capitalism can no longer be content with a...

The immune system is a complex system of cells and molecules distributed throughout our bodies that can provide us with a basic defense against pathogenic organisms. It is argued that immune system is an adaptive complex system. It is shown that it has emergent properties. Its network structure...

Despite popular misconceptions, cooperatives present a very successful organizational form worldwide. A recent study found that in the U.S., for example, 134 agricultural cooperatives celebrated their 100th anniversary in 2014. This observation on cooperative longevity is not matched by a...

The health care sector shows a disjunction between the well-understood necessity for change and the capacity to realize it. Conventional management strategies and traditional means of influencing professionals often fail to deliver projected outcomes. We address this issue from a different...

Dieser Kurzaufsatz versucht, Karl Marx als Klassiker ernst zu nehmen. Wir vertreten folgende Thesen: (1) Marx war ein Kämpfer für individuelle Freiheit. (2) Marx war ein Pionier des Systemdenkens. (3) Marx war ein ökonomischer Autodidakt. Als solchem ist ihm ein kapitaler Fehler unterlaufen....

Supply networks are composed of large numbers of firms from multiple interrelated industries. Such networks are subject to shifting strategies and objectives within a dynamic environment. In recent years, when faced with a dynamic environment, several disciplines have adopted the Complex...

Im Kontext des großflächigen Wandels von Zugang und Nutzung von Land - kritisch als land grabbing bezeichnet - kommt es vermehrt zu Konflikten zwischen Landnutzer_innen und Investoren. In diesen Prozessen der "Inkontrollnahme" ist der Staat auf vielfältige Weise involviert. Empirische Studien...