Complexity & Organizational Development

“Complexity: The Science, its Vocabulary, and its Relation to Organizations”
by Michael Lissack

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– This article, from the first issue of the journal Emergence: Complexity & Organization (E:CO), describes how complexity science has been applied to organizational development and science. It introduces and describes some of the complexity concepts and metaphors that have been used to make sense of organizations, management, and change efforts.