Search Results - subject:"complexity management"

Do ‘Complex’ Financial Models Really Lead to Complex Dynamics? Agent-Based Models and Multifractality

Kukacka, Jiri - 2020

Agent-based models are usually claimed to generate complex dynamics; however, the link to such complexity has not been subject to rigorous examination. This paper studies this link between the complexity of financial time series---measured by their multifractal properties---and the design of...

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Measuring Firm Complexity

Loughran, Tim - 2020

In business research, firm size is both ubiquitous and readily measured. In contrast, complexity, another firm-related construct, is frequently relevant, but difficult to measure and not well defined. As a result, complexity is seldom incorporated in empirical designs. Measures such as the...

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Emergent Communities of Practice : A Complexity Theory Lens

Massingham, Peter - 2020

Conceptualizing on developing cognitive pathways for taming wicked problems within the context of complex adaptive social systems, we introduce a new type of community of practice (CoP), called second track processes, that generates social intelligence as solutions to these complex problems. Our...

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What Makes a 'Regime Complex' Complex? It Depends

Hollway, James - 2020

What makes the collections of international institutions or regimes governing various domains—called in the literature regime, institutional or governance complexes—“complex”? This article examines several conditions for complexity discussed in that literature, and finds them necessary...

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Belief Polarization in a Complex World : A Learning Theory Perspective

Haghtalab, Nika; Jackson, Matthew O.; Procaccia, Ariel - 2020

We present two models of how people form beliefs that are based on machine learning theory.We illustrate how these models shed new insight into observed human phenomena by showing how polarized beliefs can arise even when people are exposed to almost identical sources of information. In our...

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The reduction of product and process complexity based on the quantification of product complexity costs

Hvam, Lars; Hansen, Christian Lindschou; Forza, Cipriano; … - In: International journal of production research 58 (2020) 2, pp. 350-366

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Context specific complexity management : a recommendation model for optimal corporate complexity

Schott, Peter; Horstmann, Felix; Bodendorf, Freimut - In: The international journal of business science & applied … 10 (2015) 2, pp. 32-46

selection of appropriate complexity management methods for accomplishing the optimal level of internal complexity is lacking. A … complexity management model is introduced that tackles this deficiency. Based on the identification of 37 complexity drivers that … determine corporate complexity and 81 complexity management methods from literature, an assignment matrix with 2,997 relations …

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Organizational Structure, Subsystem Interaction Pattern, and Misalignments in Complex NPD Projects

Jafari Songhori, Mohsen; Nasiry, Javad - 2019

Developing a complex new product requires the firm both to deconstruct that product into subsystems and to create an organizational structure aligned with the product architecture. However, empirical evidence indicates that misalignments do occur and are usually one of two general forms: a...

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Complex Instrument Allowance at Mutual Funds

Calluzzo, Paul - 2019

We study the loosening of restrictions on the use of leverage, derivatives, and illiquid assets by mutual funds. In contrast to previous studies, we find that the allowance of these complex instruments is associated with poor performance and higher risk. The underperformance is most acute during...

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The Effect of Organizational Complexity on Earnings Forecasting Behavior

Jennings, Jared N. - 2019

This paper examines whether organizational complexity affects management's communication with external market participants. We specifically examine three aspects of organizational complexity – business, geographical, and cost structure complexity. We find evidence consistent with geographical...

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