This paper aims to introduce the concept and characteristics of natech disaster (natural hazards triggered technological disaster) and to explore the policy issues in complex disaster management in Korea. This research examines the issues of natech complex disaster through analysis of Sewol...

This paper provides an introduction to a unifying heterodox approach to the micro-macro link in economics. We emphasize the analytical problems that may arise from popular misunderstandings about the relationship of individual and aggregate level and thereby illustrate why a thorough...

Controller scheinen sich untereinander oft mit der Frage zu beschäftigen, welche Rolle sie in Unternehmen spielen und welche Aufgaben von ihnen zu erledigen sind. Der vorliegende Beitrag beobachtet diese Diskussion zum einen vom Standpunkt eines Außenstehenden aus und zum anderen aus einer...

Agafonow's article locates the role of social enterprises in devolving value through output maximizing behavior. This short paper embeds Agafonow's argument in the societal and institutional context by building upon Luhmann's social systems theory. According to Luhmann, the functional system of...

Systems thinking is not a new concept to health system strengthening; however, one question remains unanswered: How policy-makers, system designers and consultants with a system thinking philosophy should act (have acted) as potential change agents in actually gaining opportunities to introduce...

We propose a reduced form set of two coupled continuous time equations linking the price of a representative asset and the price of a bond, the later quantifying the cost of borrowing. The feedbacks between asset prices and bonds are mediated by the dependence of their "fundamental values'' on...

The purpose of this paper is to examine ways in which complex theory informs the current sensemaking practices of firms facing turbulent environments. It is postulated that understanding sensemaking theory from this new perspective will offer new insights for scholars and practitioners as to how...