Liu, Jucun; Tong, Tony W.; Sinfield, Joseph V. Toward a resilient complex adaptive system view of business models. Long Range Planning. Jun2021, Vol. 54 Issue 3, pN.PAG-N.PAG. This paper employs the ...

What are “complex systems” in this context? These are noncomputer systems, such as a company’s supply chain. A system is “complex” when it has so many variables and interacting forces that it can’t be ...

Global modeling has been used for decades to assess the possible futures of humanity and the global environment. However, these models do not always satisfactorily include the adaptive characteristics ...

ABSTRACT Two case studies are presented in which models were used as focal tools in problems associated with common-pool resource management in developing countries. In the first case study, based in ...

In the latest issue of the Journal of Engineering Education, there’s a guest editorial by Rick Stephens and Michael Richey, both from The Boeing Company, that describes Boeing’s internal efforts to ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. The Healthy Cities movement is a strong but sometimes underappreciated planning concept with its roots in the complex structure of the human body.

I was a second-year medical school student when I encountered my first patient with GRID — gay-related immune deficiency. The year was 1982, and the disease that would soon be called AIDS was an ...

Humans rely on metaphors to guide a shared understanding of our complex world, and in a novel twist, a faculty member in the University of Rhode Island's Department of Fisheries, Animals and ...