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ARE SMALL-FIRM CLUSTERS EMERGENT PHENOMENA? EVIDENCE FROM ZIMBABWE’S SMALL FURNITURE- MANUFACTURING FIRMS

MUPONDA, Godfrey; CHANETA, Isaac - In: EcoForum 3 (2014) 2, pp. 6-6

The purpose of this study was to explore the reasons behind the rapid growth and apparent dynamism of Zimbabwe’s small-firm industrial clusters. The hypothesis behind the study was that these small-firm clusters are emergent phenomena. The study analysed the capital utilisation techniques of...

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Multi-Agent Simulation Collision Avoidance of Complex System: Application to Evacuation Crowd Behavior

Chennoufi, Mohammed; Bendella, Fatima; Bouzid, Maroua - In: International Journal of Ambient Computing and … 9 (2018) 1, pp. 43-59

In this work, we present a collision avoidance technique for a crowd robust navigation of individuals in evacuation which is a good example of a complex system. The proposed algorithm is inspired from the Reynolds model, with the addition of several individuals' behavioral criteria as well as a...

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Understanding Games Through Complexity Thinking Approach

Deghedi, Ghada Ahmed - In: International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated … 10 (2018) 3, pp. 41-56

The complexity theory and the concept of emergence is a theoretical framework that offers a vocabulary and tool for … complexity and emergence at three levels of a game system: the design level, play level and metagame level. This explanation is …

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The Past, Present and Possible Future for Systems

Minati, Gianfranco - In: International Journal of Systems and Society (IJSS) 4 (2017) 1, pp. 1-9

In this article, the author briefly summarise the characteristics of the science of complexity or post- Bertalanffy General Systems. The author discusses the shift from considering systems as acquiring properties due to their explicit or supposed design, to self-organised, emergent systems....

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Wipeout: Sangley mercantile dominance and persistence in the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines

Fabella, Raul V. - 2012

Documentary evidence of the emergence and the eventual complete dominance of the Chinese mercantile traders (Sangleys …

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Neuroscience and reductionism: Some realist reflections

Edwards, Paul K. - 2013

Organizational neuroscience (ON) is a rapidly emerging sub-field. Criticisms of its reductionism are common. Yet it is possible for practitioners and critics to engage. Such engagement is facilitated by realism. It agrees with the practitioners of ON that brain functions can in principle be...

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Neither Pirates nor Politicos: The Emergence of Venture Capital in Weak Institutional Environments

Lingelbach, David Charles - 2009

Existing variance studies of venture capital (VC) provide an incomplete understanding of VC emergence, emphasizing … perspectives do not provide for a complete understanding of the systemic, processual character of VC emergence. A multistage … process model of emergence is developed, linking industry structural characteristics and their underlying processes to …

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The use of networks in human resource acquisition for entrepreneurial firms: Multiple "fit" considerations

Leung, Aegean; Zhang, Jing; Wong, Poh Kam; Foo, Maw Der - 2006

This study proposes a multi-dimension, multi-contingent "fit" perspective for examining different practices adapted by entrepreneurial firms in acquiring human resources. We posit that while environmental constraints are important considerations for adapting recruitment practices through...

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Using Agent-Based Models to Understand the Surprising Complexity of Global Markets

Earnest, David - 2011

Why is the economy “complex”? For all the recent advances in the management sciences, businesses today face markets full of unexpected events, from cascading failures of lending institutions to speculative investment and the explosive growth of tech firms. In this talk, I argue that the...

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Systemism

Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius; Kapeller, Jakob - 2024

This entry discusses the concept of "systemism", elaborates how it implicitly underpinned most seminal works of evolutionary-institutional economics, and explains how future research would benefit from making the systemist nature of evolutionary economics more explicit. More precisely, the paper...

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