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Are We Ready for Complexity
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Kurtz, Cynthia F. |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | This paper describes a series of explorations into scientific concepts related to complexity and chaos and how they have been translated into the world of business and organizations. In each of three cases, a story of uncertainty was rewritten into a story of certainty. The butterfly effect, which describes the impossibility of ascertaining cause and effect in complex patterns, was transformed into a story about a plucky little underdog who changes the world. The story of the keystone species, a critical ecological player defined by its apparent unimportance, was repurposed into a story about the benevolence of huge multinationals. The struggle of populations to survive in an uncertain world was converted into a story about an inevitable march to evolutionary perfection. The author investigates each of these “second stories” and ponders what they tell us about our readiness to benefit from the not-always-comforting insights of complexity theory. The paper ends with constructive suggestions for getting ready to understand and benefit from complexity. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.18278/jpcs.4.1.7 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.cfkurtz.com/Kurtz_2018_Butterfly_Paper_JPCS_FinalVersion_FormattedForPrinting.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.18278/jpcs.4.1.7 |
| Volume Number | 4 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
