Volume 13, Issue 3, 2008
Special Issue on Complexity
Edited by Jeffrey Goldstein
1. Editorial Introduction: Complexity Science Applied to Innovation – Theory meets Praxis” Jeffrey Goldstein
Scholarly-Style Papers:
2. The Last Mile of the Market: How Network Technologies, Architectures of Participation and Peer Production Transform the Design of Work and Labour”, by John Verdon
3. Perspectives on Organizational Change: Systems and Complexity Theories”, by Francis Amagoh
4. Overcoming Failure of Imagination in Crisis Management: The Complex Adaptive System”, by Michael Bolton & Greg Stolcis
5. Toward a Micro-Enactment Theory of Leadership and the Emergence of Innovation”, by Joyce Silberstang & Jim Hazy
6. Toward Development of a Substantive Theory of Public Sector Organizational Innovation”, by Eleanor Glor
7. Between Implementation and Outcomes, Growth Matters: Grounding an Agent-Based Modeling Approach for Understanding Collaboration Process Management”, by Erik Johnston, Ning Nan, Wei Zhong, & Darrin Hicks
8. The Role of Complexity Dynamics in the Innovation Process within the new Primary-Care Governance Model in Portugal”, by Luís Velez Lapão
9. Modern Information Literacy Innovates Library by Systems Thinking”, by Zdenka Petermanec and Matja Mulej
10. A Complexity Response to Funding Public Education”, by Alexander Dawoody
11. “Diagnosis of Sparse Adoption Data using an Expert System-Guided Innovation Diffusion Simulation Model”, by Alan J. Thomson
12. Bios Theory of Innovation”, by Héctor Sabelli
13. Innovation Complexity in the Dynamic Development of an Enterprise: Case Study of the Innovation Marvel of the Shandong Mine Area”, by Hua-ling Song, Jin-ke Li , Guo-feng Wen, & Hong-yan Li
Book Review:
14. The Black Swan. The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, reviewed by James Iain Gow
December 20 2008