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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Complex Adaptive System"”.
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Humanitarian Intervention at Mt. Sinjar, Iraq: A Complex Adaptive System Analysis
… paper analyzes the international response to the Complex Emergency (CE) through network analysis as an alternative to existing civil-military frameworks. Complex Adaptive System (CAS) analysis is used to explain actions in a non-hierarchical environment. Salient strategies that worked to produce a …
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Understanding adaptive teaching expertise in an elementary classroom viewed as a complex adaptive system
DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8061 on 2015-07-22 at 10:33:27
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To explore the holistic behaviour of the UK Intellectual Property Office using the Complex Adaptive System paradigm
… the UK Intellectual Property Office, using the complex adaptive system paradigm. The study contributes to knowledge and practice through the refinement of the complexity strategy matrix, which portrays organisations as degrees of mechanistic and emergent behaviour. Consequently this …
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An Effective Communication Framework For Inter-Agent Communication In a Complex Adaptive System With Application To Biology
Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) and Partial and Ordinary Differential Equations (PDEs and ODEs respectively) have often been employed by researchers to effectively model and simulate Complex Adaptive Systems (CASs). PDEs and ODEs are reduction based approaches which view the system globally and ignore …
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Identifying Complex Adaptive Systems Using Quantitative Approaches At A Midsized Biotechnology Firm
… Where hierarchical leadership models lapse, complexity theory and complexity leadership theory may provide an alternative leadership model for successful organizational adaptation. However, much of the research surrounding complexity theory remains academic. Historical data from a …
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Managing governance programmes in primary care: lessons from case studies of the implementation of clinical governance in two primary care trusts
… framework to determine the key insights that complex adaptive system theories provide to the novel challenges facing the introduction of clinical governance in two English Primary Care Trusts (PCTs). It presents empirical research on governance through qualitative case studies of the …
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Developing A Strategy to Combat Drug Abuse in Philadelphia, 1960-1973
… a years-long, work-in-progress to address the complex adaptive system that substance abuse represented. Though the strategy did not rectify the larger environmental issues of race, stability, and sustainability with which Philadelphia contended, it did provide a balanced approach and a starting …
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The cybernetics of socio-economic change and development - Social technology: The organisation of the change and evolution of socio-economic systems
… because of the importance of the cybernetic-systems approach to some of the more critical questions facing man, the importance that the average layman understands this approach and the questions tackled in this investigation. These critical questions concern the converging trends in …
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Pharmaceutical supply chain resilience. An exploratory analysis of vulnerabilities and resilience strategies in the face of dynamic disruptions in the UK pharmaceutical supply chain
… to reduce the effects of these disruptions. The Complex Adaptive System (CAS) theory was used as a framework in an exploratory research design using mixed-methods. The qualitative data were gathered through 23 semi-structured interviews with key supply chain actors across the PSC in the UK to …
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An examination of decision-making during organizational crises: a case study of the 2017 Northern California Firestorm
… can be appropriately described as a complex adaptive system. The findings also yielded insights related to several decision factors: past experiences, time influences, situational control, group member trust, and decision-maker self-perceptions. Among the various decision factors …
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The Influence of Environmental Disruption on Offender-Target Interactions and Criminal Activity in Emergency Scenarios
… and exposure to the criminal justice system are inherently spatial phenomena, with varying, and often disparate, implications among people and across places. The geography of crime is best understood as a complex adaptive system in which criminogenic spaces emerge from the spatial …
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The Archetypal Market Hypothesis; A Complex Psychology Perspective on the Market’s Mind
… the Archetypal Market Hypothesis (AMH). Based on complex psychology and supported by insights from other (mind) sciences it describes the unconscious nature of investing and how it shapes price patterns. Specifically, it emphasises the central role of numerical archetypes in price discovery. Its …
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Policy Systems and Their Complexity Dynamics: Academic Medical Centers and Managed Care Markets
This dissertation examined how complexity theory might offer insight into the behavior of a population of large-scale networked organizational groups. Academic medical centers (AMCs), a large-scale social and policy system that plays a key role in the education of physicians, the conduct of …
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Prolegomena to a postmodern theory of law
… to apply results from the sciences of chaos and complex adaptive systems to derive the elements of postmodernism from a mathematical perspective. This shows how systems can spontaneously construct knowledge and improve without assuming the possibility of perfect knowledge about social systems. I …
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The adaptive capability of the operational team to respond to challenges in the Emergency Centre. A SenseMaker® study in Emergency Centres within Cape Town
… the dynamics and negotiations within the EC as a complex adaptive system. Methods This exploratory study used narrative-based inquiry with abductive reasoning to meet the objectives. It was divided into two sections. The first was a thick description of the EC context, daily operations and …
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Towards an understanding of the boundaries and characteristics of a Digital Business Strategy
… of the Strategic Alignment Model (SAM) and the Complex Adaptive System (CAS) frameworks. This study subscribed to a mixed-method approach which included both qualitative and quantitative research techniques. Staff providing input into this study included senior, middle, junior and non-management …
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Network Organization Paradigm
In a complex adaptive system, diverse agents perform various actions without adherence to a predefined structure. The achievement of collaborative actions will be the result of continual interactions among them that shape a dynamic network. Agents may form an ad hoc organization based on the …
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Measuring Performance in Complex Adaptive Systems: An Agent-Based Approach to Managerial and Technological Change
… and measured by viewing the organization as a Complex Adaptive System (CAS), a dynamic network of socio-technical systems including people, teams, and technologies that continuously evolve and respond to change. To measure how well these systems perform over time, this research uses advanced …
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Large-Scale Simulations for Complex Adaptive Systems with Application to Biological Domains
Modeling or simulating Complex Adaptive Systems (CASs) is both important and challenging. As the name suggests, CASs are systems consisting of large numbers of interacting adaptive compartments. They are studied across a wide range of disciplines and have unique properties. They model such systems …
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Anticipatory Thinking and Sensemaking for Educational Design in an Era of Disruption: General Morphological Analysis Applied to Global Service Learning
… In navigating today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, educators face ‘wicked problems’—deeply interconnected, value-laden challenges that resist straightforward solutions. Addressing these requires a shift in approach. Anticipatory design thinking, sensemaking, and …
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