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Issue Articles
FORUM
An alternative sports metaphor for understanding teamwork as complex: Soccer
As critiques of and dislike for organizational teamwork increase, alternatives must be sought for both pedagogy and practice. Competitive sports metaphors are often used in management practice and teaching; unfortunately, these tend to reflect distin... Read More
ACADEMIC
Power law distributions in pattern dynamics of attacker-defender dyads in the team sport of Rugby Union: Phenomena in a region of self-organized criticality?
In the region of self-organized criticality (SOC) interdependency between multi-agent system components exists and slight changes in near-neighbor interactions can break the balance of equally poised options leading to transitions in system order. In... Read More
with PEDRO PASSOS DUARTE KEITH DAVIDS JOAO.MILHO MILHO LUIS GOUVEIA
EMERGENCE
The emergence of the communicative value of silence
Within traditional theories of communication the silence is often devoid of any communicative value. When the latter is taken into consideration, it is viewed as depending on the intentionality of the agent producing the communicative act. Unfortunat... Read More
with MARIA PENNA SANDRO MOCCI CRISTINA SECHI
PRACTITIONER
Framework for the role of self-organization in the handling of adaptive challenges
This paper extends the concept of self-organization from the natural sciences to management and proposes a framework for the role of self-organization in the handling of adaptive challenges by enterprises. The process of self-organization is a charac... Read More
PRACTITIONER
Knowledge transformation, learning and changes giving competitive advantage in aerospace supply chains
The paper investigates three levels of learning—adaptive, reactive and expansive—for the transformation of knowledge to enhance innovation and competitive advantage in commercial aerospace supply chains. A perspective of supply chains as ... Read More
with CHRISTEN ROSE-ANDERSSEN JAMES BALDWIN KEITH RIDGWAY PETER ALLEN LIZ VARGA
FORUM
Emergence is not always ‘good’
The concepts of emergence and collective intelligence are fascinating, and from their study might come good things. But neither is ‘good’ by definition and we ought to be careful not to let our enthusiasm and interest lead to us into spea... Read More
PHILOSOPHY
Complexity and the phenomenological structure of ‘surprise’
Surprising, unexpected events happen all the time which can be thought of and addressed in a variety of ways. On one hand, surprise can be something that is not desired, something suppressed or controlled for. Or, it can be something that is embraced... Read More
