Latest Topics in Systemic Complexity
Complexity Economics
Information Theory reads ice cores
Complexity theory and financial regulation
What is Systemic Complexity
An Exciting New Area
I am
developing a research program in this area.
Systemic Complexity is the name for a
proposed research agenda that captures
elements that are already natural to IS but
has arguably eluded the focus of IS
researchers. It is a call for a return to
the foundations of the field in the name of
systems.
Resources
There are plenty of online resources available. Visit the Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Explorer for information and courses on complexity. Lazlo Barabasi has an online book that he is developing called Network Science which discusses how networks are the heart of complexity. The origins of systems thinking can of course be traced back to Ludwig Bertalanffy. This Bertalanffy Center for System Science continues his legacy. More recently and closer to IS, Churchman's (1968) The Systems Approach and Checkland's (1981) Systems Thinking laid the foundations for systems in IS
