This book examines and critiques classical approaches to strategic analysis, whilst exploring alternative methods which utilise ecosystem and platform concepts, as well as chaos and complexity theories. The innovative study provides a critique of the neoclassical Newtonian school of strategy,...

Traditional education has been extremely biased towards science, owing primarily to the success that science has demonstrated in the last three centuries. While the methods of science are greatly, if not fully, responsible for its success, these are grossly inadequate in the context of societal...

Systemtheoretische Perspektive auf IT-Architekturen -- Strukturelle Komplexität in Unternehmens-/IT-Architekturen sowie deren Quantifizierung -- Qualitative Untersuchung der Ursachen und Auswirkungen von Komplexität in IT-Architekturen -- Designprinzipien für ein Informationssystem zur...

Обусловлена актуальность исследования процессов накопления капитала в современной экономике. Рассмотрены возможности применения мир-системного подхода,...

This paper offers empirical evidence on the power of Sornette et al's [2001] model of bubbles and crashes regarding the German stock market between 1960 and 2009. We identify relevant time periods and describe them with the function given by Sornette et al's model. Our results show some evidence...

I motivate and sketch a new cross-disciplinary research project to improve our understanding of unethical corporate behavior. Systems-theoretic analysis, developed largely by Nancy Leveson (MIT) and Sidney Dekker (Lund University) based on work by Jens Rasmussen (Risø National Laboratory,...

Knowledge-based communities are important but poorly understood systems for helping enterprises maintain their organizational integrity and address organizational imperatives. Based on an autopoietic theory of organization, we examine the emergence and development of knowledge-based communities...

Factorial moments are convenient tools in particle physics to characterize the multiplicity distributions when phase-space resolution (Delta) becomes small. They include all correlations within the system of particles and represent integral characteristics of any correlation between these...

Urban sprawl has deleterious effects on natural and man-made landscapes and therefore, on the attractiveness of visitor and tourist areas. The spread of urban land use has prompted a significant loss of biodiversity and an increasing vulnerability of fragile natural and man-made systems. A...