Editorials (PDF)

Editor's Introduction
David Snowden

Guest Editors' Introduction
David Boje & Ken Baskin

General Papers
Practitioner

After Managerialism
Theodore Taptiklis (PDF)

Narrative Processes in Organizational Discourse
John T. Luhman (PDF)

Telling It Like You Think It Might Be: Narrative, Linguistic Anthropology, and the Complex Organization
Michael Agar (PDF)

The Use of Narrative to Understand and Respond to Complexity:
A Comparative Analysis of the Cynefin and Weickian Models
Larry Browning & Theirry Boudès (PDF)

Academic

Wanted for Breaking and Entering Organizational Systems in Complexity: Eros and Thanatos
Adrian N. Carr & Cheryl A. Lapp (PDF)

Order (for Free) in the Court: Legal Systems as Sites for Creating Emergent Order Out of Agents' Narratives
Doug Smith (PDF)

Complexity and Catastrophe: Disentangling the Complex Narratives of the Union Carbide Disaster in Bhopal
Heather Höpfl & Sumohon Matilal (PDF)

Storytelling and Globalization: The Complex Narratives of Netwar
Michelle Shumate, J. Alison Bryant & Peter R. Monge (PDF)

Three Kingdoms, Sensemaking, and Complexity Theory
Check Teck Foo (PDF)

Complexity and Philosophy

Hopeful Monsters: Literary Teleology and Emergence
Victoria N. Alexander (PDF)

Complexity Theory and Continental Philosophy - Part 1
A Review of Letiche's Phenomenological Complexity Theory
Stephen Sheard (PDF)

Classical Paper

Beyond Open System Models of Organization (previously unpublished)
Louis R. Pondy
(with an introduction by David Boje) (PDF)

The Architecture of Complexity (originally published in 1962)
Herbert A. Simon
(with an introduction by Paul Cilliers) (PDF)

Forum

Stories from the Frontier
David Snowden (PDF)

Adjacent Opportunities
Ron M. Schultz (PDF)

Book Reviews (PDF)

Review of "Wisdom of Crowds"
Shawn Callahan

Review of "Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers"
Fred Nickols

Review of "The Organizational Learning Cycle: How We Can Learn Collectively"
Bill Godfrey

Review of "The New Knowledge Management: Complexity, Learning, and Sustainable Innovation"
Bill Godfrey

Event Notices & Announcements (PDF)