closely related to network governance and social network theory, than to political administrative hierarchy. However, so far …

subjecting the revenue-complexity, revenue-elasticity and flypaper hypotheses to pooled time-series, cross-sectional analysis of … provided for the revenue-complexity hypothesis, strong evidence exists for the flypaper effect, and virtually no empirical …

This conceptual paper investigates how the metaphorical use of concepts from complexity theory may impact the way we …, borrowed from complexity theory are presented. Fractal thinking allows self-similarity through the constants of initial … think about human resource management theory and practice. The concepts of fractal, strange attractor and quantum self …

There is increasing agreement that understanding complexity is important for project management because of difficulties … associated with decision-making and goal attainment which appear to stem from complexity. However the current operational … complexity can be measured in a robust manner that takes account of structural, dynamic and interaction elements. Thematic …

recent years has introduced new challenges. One challenge concerns dealing with the ever-growing complexity of business … process models. Mechanisms for dealing with this complexity can be classified into two categories: i) those that are solely …

accompanied by an increase in language complexity. In practice many organizations choose to only use a subset of the available … modeling constructs. Using a well-established ontology-based theory of representation, we analyze how this voluntary … restriction affects the expressiveness and complexity of the resulting modeling vocabulary. We compare our empirical findings with …

landscape of “complexity theory” and illuminating those developments within it that have high relevance to project management … complex projects. At the same time, complexity in and of projects has emerged as a theme for discussion and debate in response … to growing concern about the dominance of various versions of control theory, operations research, systems theory, and …