The science of complexity: An alternative perspective for strategic change processes

The two perspectives of strategy process most firmly established in the literature—strategic choice and ecology—assume the same about system dynamics: negative feedback processes driving successful systems (individual organizations or populations of organizations) toward predictable equilibrium states of adaptation to the environment. This paper proposes a third perspective, that of complex adaptive systems. The framework is provided by the modern science of complexity: the study of nonlinear and network feedback systems, incorporating theories of chaos, artificial life, self-organization and emergent order. Here system dynamics are characterized by positive and negative feedback as systems coevolve far from equilibrium, in a self-organizing manner, toward unpredictable long-term outcomes.     

Toward a 0th Law of Thermodynamics: Order-Creation Complexity Dynamics from Physics and Biology to Bioeconomics

The evolutionary economics part of bioeconomics has its origins in attempts to justify why only rational firms survive, or to introduce dynamics into economic orthodoxy. To the extent that these views persist, this aspect of bioeconomics appears outdated. A more recent view is that the most significant dynamics in bio- and econospheres are not variances around equilibria. Instead order is now seen to be due to the interactions of autonomous, heterogeneous agents energized by contextually imposed tensions induced by energy differentials. While Darwinian selection is still an important process at the tail end of the order-creation process, other natural forces surrounding the biosphere are seen as causing the more significant changes in biological entities over the millennia. This view is set forth within the framework of thermodynamics. It also calls for a change away from the definition of science rooted in the equilibrium mathematics of Newton's orbital mechanics. This new message from natural science is about rapid-fire dynamics calling for a fast-motion science of order-creation before the equilibria of the 1^st Law of Thermodynamics take hold. The 2^nd Law of Thermodynamics is seen to dominate the 1^st Law as the root cause of change. The possibility of a 0^th law – of agents' self-organization toward order creation – is considered. Key works by Prigogine, Ashby, Lorenz, Haken, Kelso et al., Salthe, Gell-Mann, Mainzer, Omnès, and Kauffman are reviewed. Nine premises – tracing the path toward an emerging 0^th law – are discussed, with some variance also evident. The view of Kelso et al. most easily leads to a one-sentence statement of a possible 0^th law of order creation that could offer something of value to bioeconomists.     

基于经济学视角的产业集群形成机理考察

产业集群是引发世界各国普遍关注的经济和社会现象，也是当今经济管理学界的前沿课题。特别是在经济全球化迅速发展的今天，传统的经济理论在阐释产业集群这一理论现象时亦显乏力。本文在对中外经济学者有关产业集群成因的论断进行系统梳理的基础上，深入分析了产业集群给传统经济理论带来的挑战，并从企业自组织理论的视角对产业集群的形成机理作了探讨。     

基于耗散结构理论的集群创新系统形成及演化分析

集群创新系统具有自组织的特性,并在演变的过程中耗散结构形成,接着从熵变的角度进行研究,通过建立集群创新系统的熵变模型,试图说明集群创新系统演变的路径和内在机理。随着创新产出量的变化,集群创新系统表现出明显的演化过程,通过有效控制创新产出量,可以从宏观上把握集群创新系统的演化方向。     

协作商务中基于BA无标度网络的核心企业自组织性解释

分布计算、知识管理和电子商务相互作用产生的协作商务与传统网络组织相比,存在合作关系更加紧密、对整个组织的协调和控制能力更强等特点。将协作商务看作是一个自组织系统,并分析指出其中的核心企业是组织内个体自发对决策权让度的结果,随后提出了一个BA无标度网络的拓展模型以描述协作商务网络的合作关系,并进行了数值模拟。研究表明,随着协作商务中个体间协作关系的纵向深化,整个协作网络将以更快的速度演化并加剧了节点度的不对称分布。     

村庄治理现代化进程中农民自组织公共参与逻辑与进路——基于3个典型案例的研究

本文选取3个农民自组织作为研究案例,这3个农民自组织分属于治理现代化处于不同阶段的3个村庄,具体分析其农民自组织公共参与的现实逻辑。基于理论逻辑与现实逻辑的分析指出,农民自组织公共参与逻辑沿着组织及其成员经济利益最大化、村庄治理权力和治理地位的获取、组织公共精神培育及村庄公共价值实现的路径推进。村庄应基于农民自组织公共参与逻辑及进路,采取选择性激励方法,激励农民自组织公共参与,推进村庄治理现代化。