Exploration of the communicative nature of innovation processes and the impact of this on innovation management has largely been ignored in innovation research. This paper suggests that the adoption of a complex responsive processes perspective opens up for insight and implications that depart...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The police in national emergency -- Terror in Norway -- Panic and collapse of hierarchy -- Collapse of leadership and coordination -- Complexity and practice -- Organizational practices and leadership -- Communication -- Power, identity, and ethics -- The...

Part 1. Foundations of complexity in organizational theories -- Early attempts to deal with complexity in organizations -- Cybernetics: the rise of a systems science to control complexity -- Systems theories and complexity in organizations -- The origins of complexity theories in organizations...

Part 1. Foundations of complexity in organizational theories -- Early attempts to deal with complexity in organizations -- Cybernetics: the rise of a systems science to control complexity -- Systems theories and complexity in organizations -- The origins of complexity theories in organizations...