quot;In the midst of order, there is chaos; but in the midst of chaos, there is orderquot;, John Gribbin wrote in his book Deep Simplicity (p.76). In this dialectical spirit, we discuss the generative tension between complexity and simplicity in the theory and practice of management and...

The development of new theory is often spurred by novel techniques that provide better answers to existing questions, or that allow asking new ones. In the field of strategy and organization science, models of complex adaptive systems have renewed theoretical work on a fundamental question: how...

Semantic technologies which visualise complete ontologies in network form are manifold; yet such semantic networks remain for the most part exclusively within the grasp of domain experts. In this paper, we suggest that semantic networks representing foreign domains can indeed present many...

This paper is concerned with examining the implications of inter-organisational relationships for human resource management (HRM). To date much of the literature on human resource management has been inwardly focussed on the organisation and its employees. Yet increasingly complex organisational...