From: "Hans-Cees Speel" <hanss@sepa.tudelft.nl>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:04:58 +0100
Subject: new journal
Message-Id: <E10Fe3b-0006oS-00@dryctnath.mmu.ac.uk>
Dear all,
below is a message on a new journal and organization that might
be of interest to some of us,
greetings
Hans-Cees
A conference, a new journal, and an invitation to contribute
Complexity, Organizations, and Management all come together in
several
activities of the New England Complex Systems Institute. The
New England
Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is an independent educational
and
research institution dedicated to advancing the study of complex
systems.
NECSI was established as a joint effort of faculty of New England
academic
institutions for the advancement of communication and collaboration
outside of institutional and departmental boundaries.
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The first issue of our new refereed journal --
Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and
Management
-- is due out in April.
Emergence, which is published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Inc., is a
quarterly publication of the New England Complex Systems
Institute
containing articles relating complex systems, sensemaking,
psychology,
philosophy, semiotics, and cognitive science to the management of
private
and public organizations. The readers of Emergence are managers,
consultants and academics interested in the application of insights,
metaphors and formal models from the science of complex
systems to
day-to-day management and leadership challenges.
More information regarding Emergence can be found at
http://emergence.org
Subscription inquiries should be directed to journals@erlbaum.com
or
1-800-926-6579 ***********************************************
The Spring Conference on "Managing the Complex" will be held in
Boston
March 17-21.
Places are still available. For more information see
http://emergence.org/boston.htm
Featured speakers include Jack Cohen (coauthor of Figments of
Reality),
Susanne Kelly (coauthor of The Complexity Advantage), Ben Zander
(conductor and noted leadership guru), Donald Hoffman (author of
Visual
Intelligence), Roger Lewin (author of Complexity), Ken Baskin
(author of
Corporate DNA), Kim James (artist and management guru), Paul
Cilliers
(author of Complexity and PostModernism) and many more.
Our collective goal will be to discover if complexity based concepts
can
actually assist organizations facing problems. We will not be
content
merely with exchanges of nice metaphors and anecdotes. The
conference
will feature breakout sessions after each plenary speaker focusing
discussions about what wsa presented on the problems of an
aerospace
development, a software startup, a knowledge management
company, and a
non-profit in transition. In addition there will be software
demonstrations of new AI based management tools.
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Your contribution is needed!
We invite participation in an exciting and unique venture.
Emergence: A
Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management is
devoting
its first special issue, planned for mid-1999, to a comprehensive
review
of books on complexity and management.
We are making efforts to have books reviewed by management
scientists AND
complexity scientists. Such a cooperative and transdisciplinary
effort is
necessary, we believe, in order to ensure that work that is built
upon a
solid foundation is applauded and encouraged while "lighter" or less
rigourous treatments are identified.
The special issue is, we believe, destined to become an important
reference volume for management researchers and practitioners
alike. The
recent proliferation of books on complexity and management has
created the
need for an authoritative and balanced guide to this new field. We
are
seeking to assemble the views of academics from both
organization studies
and the science of complex systems, along with those of prominent
management practitioners and consultants.
IF YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED IN WRITING A SHORT BOOK REVIEW (only 1000
words:book provided free of charge), then please signal your interest to
either Bill McKelvey (
mckelvey@anderson.ucla.edu
) or Steve Maguire
(
smaguire@management.mcgill.ca
).
FYI,The team co-editing the first special issue of Emergence is: Bruce
Abell & Mike Simmons (Santa Fe Center for Emergent Strategy), Rob Axtell
(Brookings Institute), Steve Maguire (McGill), Bill McKelvey (UCLA), Mike
McMaster (KBD), Dan Stein (Arizona)
Given the limited number of potential reviewers with the appropriate
level
of expertise and interest in complex systems as a discipline, we
do hope
that everyone will give serious consideration to our offer.
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For more information on all of these activities please visit
http://emergence.org or http://necsi.org
Theories come and go, the frog stays [F. Jacob]
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Hans-Cees Speel
Managing Editor "Journal of Memetics Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission"
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