Employing observations from the wind turbine field in Denmark, this presentation explicates path dependence and creation processes as a set of local feedback loops that results in global adaptation.
Complex dynamics arise from interactions among a network of semi-autonomous agents.
Two biomedical innovations are tracked over time and analyzed with linear and nonlinear parametric time series models and algorithms developed to detect chaotic conditions in small sample sizes. A longitudinal study of drama companies funded by the French government examines how contradictory and complementary logics of action undermine attempts to regulate complex systems through normative rules. Inst. for Mgmt. Combining complex adaptive systems theory, autopoiesis theory and organizational epistemology, we describe poised organizations and illustrate their properties through case studies of a US-based manufacturing company and a Swedish insurance firm. Many strategic alliances can usefully be conceptualized as relationship systems that are non-linear and far from equilibrium.