Uncertainty is a precondition for our choices to have meaning, but we like to think we have adaptive capacities to deal with the surprises and opportunities uncertainty entails. The turbulent field was defined in 1965 by Emery and Trist as the most uncertain causal texture a system could be in,...

Uncertainty is a precondition for our choices to have meaning, but we like to think we have adaptive capacities to deal with the surprises and opportunities uncertainty entails. The turbulent field was defined in 1965 by Emery and Trist as the most uncertain causal texture a system could be in,...

While it is through creating and marketing products that firms achieve success, there are also significant opportunities for them to create value by exploiting the capabilities they utilize in creating products. However, seeing capabilities in this light demands new ways of thinking about...

This paper proposes that responsibility is better understood as an aesthetic rather than as an ethical construct. It suggests that aesthetics is a distinctively European way of conceptualizing ‘cooperation and responsible management’, but nevertheless finds conditions that will...

This paper surveys the history of an alternative view of value creation to that associated with industrial production. It argues that technical breakthroughs and social innovations in actual value creation render the alternative - a value co-production framework - ever more pertinent. The paper...