Getting together in March and more

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Michael Lissack
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Getting together in March and more

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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
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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
From: Michael Lissack <lissack@lissack.com>




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