New England Complex Systems Institute

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Axelrod, Robert

• The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration
• The Evolution of Cooperation

Bak, Per

• How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality

Bar-Yam, Yaneer

• Dynamics of Complex Systems

Boisot, Max

• Information Space: A Framework for Learning in Organizations, Institutions and Culture
• Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy

Brown, Shona L. & Eisenhardt, Kathleen M.

• Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos

Conner, Daryl R.

• Leading at the Edge of Chaos; How to Create the Nimble Organization

de Landa, Manuel

• A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

Eve, Raymond A. et al

• Chaos, Complexity, and Sociology: Myths, Models, and Theories

Gleick, James

• Chaos: Making a New Science

Guastello, Stephen J.

• Managing Emergent Phenomena: Nonlinear Dynamics in Work Organizations

Hock, Dee

• The Chaordic Principle: Mixing Chaos and Order to Jump Start the Twenty-First Century

Holland, John H.

• Emergence: From Chaos to Order
• Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity

Kaneko, Kunihiko & Tsuda, Ichiro

• Complex Systems: Chaos and Beyond, A Constructive Approach with Applications in Life Sciences

Kauffman, Stuart

• At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
• The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution

Kiel, L. Douglas

• Managing Chaos and Complexity in Government: A New Paradigm for Managing Change, Innovation, and Organizational Renewal

Lewin, Roger

• Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos

Liu, Jiming

• Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Explorations in Learning, Self-Organization, and Adaptive Computation

Liu, Jiming and Wu, Jianbing

• Multi-Agent Robotic Systems

Lomi, Alessandro and Larsen, Erik R. (editors)

• Dynamics of Organizations: Computational Modeling and Organizational Theories

McMaster, Michael D.

• The Intelligence Advantage: Organizing for Complexity

Merry, Uri et al

• Coping With Uncertainty: Insights from the New Sciences of Chaos, Self-Organization, and Complexity

Monks, Robert A. G.

• The Emperor's Nightingale: Restoring the Integrity of the Corporation in the Age of Shareholder Activism

Nolfi, Stefano & Floreano, Dario

• Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines

Nørretranders, Tor

• The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

Oshry, Barry

• Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life

Perrow, Charles

• Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay

Priesmeyer, H. Richard

• Organizations and Chaos: Defining the Methods of Nonlinear Management

Schelling, Thomas C.

• Micro Motives and Macro Behavior

Stacey, Ralph D.

• Complexity and Creativity in Organizations
• Managing the Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations

Stengers, Isabelle & Prigogine, Ilya

• The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature

Stewart, Ian & Cohen, Jack

• Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind

Waldrop, M. Mitchell

• Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

Weick, Karl E.

• Sensemaking in Organizations

Zohar, Danah

• Rewiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations

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