The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management will be the first substantive scholarly work to provide a map of the state of art research in the growing field emerging at the intersection of complexity science and management studies.

Table of Contents

• List of Contributors
• Introduction - Steve Maguire, Peter Allen and Bill McKelvey
• Foundations
• A. Key Concepts
• Complexity and Systems Thinking - Yasmin Merali and Peter Allen
• Complexity Science and Organization - Raymond-Alain Thietart and Bérnard Forgues
• Emergence in Complex Systems - Jeffrey Goldstein
• Constructing and Appreciating Complexity - Steve Maguire
• Thoughts on Complexity and Computational Models - Michael J. Prietula
• B. Epistemological Perspectives and Considerations
• A Scientific Realist Epistemology for Complexity Science - Bill McKelvey
• Exploring Organizational Effectiveness: The Value of Complex Realism as a Frame of Reference and Systematic Comparison as a Method - David Byrne
• Complexity, Poststructuralism and Organization - Paul Cilliers
• Causality and Explanation - Alicia Juarrero
• Complexity and Limits to Knowledge: The Importance of Uncertainty - Peter Allen and Jean Boulton
• Complex Thinking: Towards an Oblique Strategy for Dealing with the Complex - Robert Chia
• C. Methodological Implications and Tools
• Applications of Kauffman's Coevolutionary NKCS Model to Management and Organization Studies - Richard Vidgen and Larry Bull
• Using Genetic Algorithms to Model Strategic Interactions - William Martin Tracy
• Organizing at the Edge of Chaos: Insights from Action Research - Donald MacLean and Robert MacIntosh
• From Skew Distributions to Power-law Science - Pierpaolo Andriani and Bill McKelvey
• Applications
• A. Complexity and Organizing
• Complexity and Organization-Environment Relations: Revisiting Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety - Max Boisot and Bill McKelvey
• The Complexity of Industrial Ecosystems: Classification and Computational Modelling - James S. Baldwin
• Complexity and the Dynamics of Organizational Change - Glenda H. Eoyang
• Complex Thought, Simple Talk: An Ecological Approach to Language-Based Change in Organizations - John Shotter and Haridimos Tsoukas
• Organisational Learning and Complexity Science: Exploring the Joint Potential - Eve Mitleton-Kelly and Ben Ramalingam
• Complexity and Management: A Pluralistic View - Kurt A. Richardson
• B. Complexity and Managing
• Implications of Complexity Science for the Study of Leadership - Russ Marion and Mary Uhl-Bien
• A Complexity Perspective on Strategic Human Resource Management - Barry A. Colbert and Elizabeth C. Kurucz
• Complexity and the Rise of Distributed Control in Operations Management - Arash Azadegan and Kevin J. Dooley
• Knowledge Management and Complexity - Max Boisot
• Complexity and Innovation - Pierpaolo Andriani
• Complexity Science Contributions to the Field of Entrepreneurship - Benyamin B. Lichtenstein
• Complexity and Competitive Advantage - Oliver Baumann and Nicolaj Siggelkow
• Complexity Theory and Corporate Strategy - Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Henning Piezunka
• More than a Metaphor: Complexity and the New Rules of Management - James K. Hazy
• Interfaces
• Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Applications to Psychology and Management - Stephen J. Guastello
• The Value in Between: Organizations as Adapting and Evolving Networks - César A. Hidalgo
• The Use of Complexity for Policy Exploration - Steven Bankes
• Complexity, Habits and Evolution - Geoffrey M. Hodgson
• Economics, Management and Complex Systems - Paul Ormerod
• How Complexity Science is Transforming Healthcare - Brenda Zimmerman