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...

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...

Public health is a means of preventing disease and providing curative care to promote citizens' health through organized efforts of various stakeholders. Performance challenges in public health in developing countries continue to surround access, availability and quality. The public health...

Entrepreneurial ecosystems are receiving heightened attention from scholars and practitioners. Studies have focused on isolating entrepreneurial ecosystems' components; however, prior research has not offered a theory of entrepreneurial ecosystems that embraces their complexity. To address this...

The Philosophy of Blockchain Technology is concerned, among other things, with its ontology, how might it be characterised, how is it being created, implemented, and adopted, how does it operate in the world, and how does it evolve over time. Here, we concentrate on whether Bitcoin/blockchain...