Preface -- Part I Size -- Chapter 1: Mega-states vs. Compact Powers: Risks in the Emerging International System -- Chapter 2: Effects of the Size of a Country on its Economic Performance -- Part II Political Regimes and Social Structure -- Chapter 3: Analyzing Dependence and Conflict in a...

Some Challenges Encountered in Value Creation and Capture -- Part I Preparation -- Introduction to Systems Research and Systemic Reasoning -- Evolution of a Market of Free Competition: A Symbolic Approach -- Axiomatization of the Resource View: The Firm and Markets -- Evolution of Resources: An...

1. An Uncertain and More Complex Environment Requires you Learn From Your Decisions – Question the Known and Seek Answers to the Unknown -- 2. How the Journey to Improved Decision Making Started with my Introduction to the Silo Problem and the Importance of Understanding Both Sides of a Story...

“A must-read for scholars (and reflective practitioners) interested in change, time, strategy, and innovation.” -Haridimos Tsoukas, Columbia Ship Management Professor of Strategic Management, University of Cyprus, and Distinguished Research Environment Professor of Organization Studies,...

In his book Kai Bulling proposes the systems constellation as an instrument for change agents. An innovative general model of the systems constellation as a management intervention is constructed that presents the method as a synergetic combination of functional elements. This creates a new...

This book demonstrates that innovative ideas are systematically constructed in the creative space spanned by the dimensions of systems thinking and knowledge management. Readers will be introduced to this proposition in the final chapter, after learning about the key innovation theories, design...

Part 1. Governance as an interaction space -- Chapter 1. The hidden side of co-creation in a complex multi-stakeholder environment: when self-organization fails and emergence overtakes -- Chapter 2. Perspectives on hybridity -- Chapter 3. Bringing Society Back in: Actors, Networks, and Systems...

1. Macroeconomics as Systems Theory: Setting the Stage -- 2. Models of Social Order: Mechanical vs. Creative -- 3. Structures of Production and Properties of Social Order -- 4. Diachronic Action within an Ecology of Plans -- 5. Kaleidic Economies and Internally Generated Change -- 6. Entangled...

A common charge leveled against the autopoietic perspective is that it does not explain change or, consequently, knowledge creation. This book demonstrates that knowledge creation is not always an ongoing process, as is claimed in many process philosophy and autopoietic research works. The...

Chapter 1. Tribute to three voices -- Chapter 2. The role of Information and Communication Technologies in Human Interactions -- Chapter 3. Interdisciplinary systems thinking for a new scientific paradigm: toward a re-founding of human values -- Chapter 4. Autonomous Systems and the Place of...