Each chapter in Managing Complexity focuses on analyzing real-world complex systems and transferring knowledge from the complex-systems sciences to applications in business, industry and society. The interdisciplinary contributions range from markets and production through logistics, traffic...

In this paper we argue that if we want to find a more satisfactory approach to tackling the major socio-economic problems we are facing, we need to thoroughly rethink the basic assumptions of macroeconomics and financial theory. Making minor modifications to the standard models to remove...

Nowadays the complexity of logistics is a buzzword spreading in business, media and everyday practice. However, the study of logistics networks from the point of view of complex dynamical systems theory has started only recently. In the past decade, physicists have been more and more interested...