Creative Management of Complex Systems

Index

A, B, C

• adaptation, 58, 63, 72, 76, 79, 80, 82, 89, 96, 97
  • dynamic, 31
  • evolutionary, 44, 49
• adoption, 72
• alert, 110, 111
• alertness, 111, 116
• ambiguity, 13, 15
• attractor, 57, 79, 81, 85, 87, 88
• automobile, 140, 141, 142
• autonomy, 30, 34–37, 39, 46, 48
• autopoiesis, 34
• beliefs, 37
• bias towards the status quo, 88
• bifurcation, 60, 80, 81
• butterfly effect, 60, 61, 75
• capitalist, 105, 106, 109
• catastrophe, 63, 80
• chaordic, 57, 58, 81
• chaos theory, 129, 135, 136
• choice, 59, 64
• codebook, 48
• cognitive
  • dissonance, 82
  • system, 67, 97
• communities
  • of knowledge, 67–69
  • of practice, 68
• complex
  • adaptive system, 55, 60, 63, 74, 84–86, 88, 97, 98
  • system, 2–7, 12–16, 22, 24, 28
  • thinker, 37, 56, 76, 85
• complexity, 1, 2, 4–14, 16, 22, 23, 26–28
• composite materials, 71–73
• composition, 152, 153
• contingency, 130, 135
• control, 6, 12, 14, 15, 20, 61, 64, 65, 68, 69, 71, 76–78, 84, 87, 97
• creative destruction, 100, 103, 113
• creativity, 1–4, 17–23, 25, 28
• crisis, 60, 62, 63, 80–82, 85, 88, 97

D, E, F

• Darwinian, 40, 43, 44
• decision, 2, 8–14, 16–19, 22–24
• deterministic chaos, 137
• developer, 119
• disorder, 137, 138
• dissipative structures, 33, 42, 46
• double-loop learning, 9
• ecosystem, 68, 69, 87
• effectuation, 3, 24, 26
• emergent strategy, 58
• entrepreneur, 99–101, 103–106, 108–111, 113–119, 122–125
• entrepreneurial discovery, 100
  • communitarian, 121, 122
  • missionary, 121
• entrepreneurship, 99–102, 104, 105, 108, 112, 114, 116, 117, 120, 121, 123
• evolutionary, 29, 31, 39, 40, 42–46, 49
  • theory, 17, 25
• exaptation, ...