Abstract:
The cumulative output of these papers emphasise that modelling organisational
evolution and change from a complex systems perspective makes a significant
contribution to organisational studies and brings new insight and understandings both
to theory and practice. It is also true that the studies and modelling presented in these
papers has pushed forward the boundaries of complex systems science, again both in
theory and practice.
The papers have made new findings and understandings of the processes, drivers and
outcomes of the evolution of social systems and organisations through the
development of new evolutionary models and frameworks that contribute both to
organisational and complexity sciences. They have through a number of innovations
based in complexity science addressed questions in organisational science concerning
the importance of knowledge and learning, together with questions about the
evolution and survival of organisations and industries. These innovations have played
back into and developed complexity science.
