Due to their complex features, structured financial products can hurt the average investor. Are certain investors particularly vulnerable? Using account-level transaction data of retail structured funds, we show that the rich (sophisticated) benefit from complexity at the expense of the poor...

Companies face emerging external complexities that they must respond to with internal complexity to be able to perform on a superior performance level. On that account, an application-oriented methodology to support the context specific selection of appropriate complexity management methods for...

MANAGEMENT AND COMPLEX MANAGEMENT -- SYSTEMS AND COMPLICATED SYSTEMS -- COMPLEXITY AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS -- PARADIGM SHIFT IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS THINKING -- FROM SYSTEMICITY TO COMPLEXITY IN MANAGEMENT -- INTRODUCTION TO COMPLEX SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT -- CORE CONCEPTS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT --...

A high organizational complexity above the cognitive limits of employees and management can contribute to a business performing sub-standardly in comparison to its competitors. As businesses can grow over time into a state of high complexity, an active approach to complexity management has to be...