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What is Complexity Science

Chapter 21
Encyclopedia of Strategic Leadership and Management
A complex system is one whose component parts interact with sufficient intricacy that they cannot be predicted by standard linear equations; so many variables are at work in the system that its over-all behavior can only be understood as an emergent consequence of the holistic sum of the myriad behaviors embedded within. Reductionism does not work with complex systems, and it is now clear that a purely reductionist approach cannot be applied; ...in living systems the whole is more than the sum of its parts. This is the result of... complexity which allows certain behaviors and characteristics to emerge unbidden. ( Levy, 1992 ).
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Innoveadership: Marrying Strategic Leadership with Complexity
Ahmet Hakan Yüksel (Işık University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1049-9.ch021
Abstract
Scholars in the field of management studies are not reticent about how lively is the correlation between leadership and innovation. Given the pervasiveness of mechanistic view of organizations in the last century, this correlation was supposed to be entertained by the leaders who possessed certain personal traits and displayed behavioral patterns relevant for their followers. However, in an age of interconnectedness, leadership calls for more than leaders are capable to afford. Leadership should be acknowledged as an inter-relational social component, which is inherently embedded in each and every social interaction in the organization. Innovation, therefore, is embodied in the sum of all the interaction. This conceptual chapter intends to merge leadership and innovation and coins the term innoveadership to demonstrate their intertwined nature. Innoveadership could be described as a conflation of constructs postulated by leading scholars in the field of leadership and management studies within the contextual climate of complexity thinking.
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Toward a Fitness Landscape Model of Firms' IT-Enabled Dynamic Capabilities
A scientific umbrella that studies complex adaptive systems (CAS) and has become the de facto standard and holistic ‘lens’ for the analysis and evaluation of complex and nonlinear relations between constituent entities under continuous change.
Published in Chapter: Toward a Fitness Landscape Model of Firms' IT-Enabled Dynamic Capabilities; From: Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration, and Technology
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Big Data, Semantics, and Policy-Making: How Can Data Dynamics Lead to Wiser Governance?
Aims to understand how things are connected with each other, and how these interactions work together. It is concerned with the study of emergent order in what otherwise may be considered as very disorderly systems.
Published in Chapter: Big Data, Semantics, and Policy-Making: How Can Data Dynamics Lead to Wiser Governance?; From: Big Data Governance and Perspectives in Knowledge Management
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Exploring Information Security Risks in Healthcare Systems
The study of complex systems, broadly defined.
Published in Chapter: Exploring Information Security Risks in Healthcare Systems; From: Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
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Complexity Economics and Innovation Systems: Mersin Regional Innovation Strategy (RIS) Plus Project From Perspective of Complexity Science
A new scientific and philosophical paradigm based on complex systems with a perspective of systemism prevailing in the 21st century.
Published in Chapter: Complexity Economics and Innovation Systems: Mersin Regional Innovation Strategy (RIS) Plus Project From Perspective of Complexity Science; From: Examining the Relationship Between Economics and Philosophy
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