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Papers
#1 “Quasi-natural Organization Science,” Organization Science, 8, 1997, 351–381.
#2 “Complexity vs. Selection: Retuning Kauffman’s ‘Tunable’ Landscape.” Working paper, June 1997, 32 pages. [Accepted at Organization Science but #8 (below) was substituted instead—simpler.]
#3 “‘Good’ Science from Postmodernist Ontology: Realism, Complexity Theory, and Emergent Dissipative Structures.” Keynote Address, 1st Winter Sun-Break Conf. on Non-Linearity & Organizations, Las Cruces, NM, January 1998, 34 pages.
#4 “Thwarting Faddism at the Edge of Chaos.” Presented at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management Workshop on Complexity and Organization, June 1998, 38 pages.
#5 “Complexity vs. Selection Among Coevolutionary Firms,” Comportamento Organizacionale Gestão, 4, 1998, 17–59.
#6 “Complexity Theory in Organization Science: Seizing the Promise or Becoming a Fad?” Emergence, 1(1), 1999, 5–32.
#7 “The Gurus Speak," Emergence, 1(1), 1999, 73–91.
#8 “Avoiding Complexity Catastrophe in Coevolutionary Pockets: Strategies for Rugged Landscapes,” Organization Science, 10, 1999, 294–321.
#9 “Complexity and Management: Moving from Fad to Firm Foundations” (S. Maguire 1st author), Emergence, 1(2), 1999, 19–61.
#10 “Self-Organization, Complexity Catastrophes, and Microstate Models at the Edge of Chaos.” In J. A. C. Baum and B. McKelvey (eds.), Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T. Campbell. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1999, 279–307.
#11 “The 0th Law in Physical, Biological, and Social Systems: Complexity Science vs. the Entanglement Trap—in Firms.” Presented at the Conference of Entanglement at the Human Scale, Utrecht, The Netherlands, February 2000, 19 pages.
#12 “Improving Corporate IQ.” Proceedings. Third Intangibles Conference on Knowledge, Ross Institute of Accounting Research, Stern School, NYU, New York, May 2000, 15 pages.
#13 “Emergent Distributed Intelligence as a Rent-Generating Competence: A Complexity Theory Approach.” Presented at the 5th International Conference on Competence-Based Management, Helsinki University of Technology, June 10–14, 2000.
#14 “Improving Corporate IQ.” Keynote Address, Proceedings, Conference on Complex Systems in Industry, International Manufacturing Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, September 2000, 6 pages.
#15 “Improving Corporate IQ.” Proceedings, Workshop on Managerial Implications of Complexity Theory in the Network Economy, sponsored by ISUFI, University of Lecce, at Ostuni, Italy, July 14th, 2001, 6 pages.
#16 “What Is Complexity Science? It’s Really Order-Creation Science,” Emergence, 3, 2001 137–157.
#17 “Energizing Order-Creating Networks of Distributed Intelligence,” International Journal of Innovation Management, 5, 2001, 181–212.
#18 “Foundations of New Social Science: Institutional Legitimacy from Philosophy, Complexity Science, Postmodernism, and Agent-based Modeling.” Presented at the National Academy of Sciences Colloquium—Adaptive Agents, Intelligence and Emergent Human Organization: Capturing Complexity Through Agent-Based Modeling, October, 5-6, 2001. (33 page version)
#19 “On the Agent-Modeling of Emergence: Some Scaling Propositions” (Benyamin Bergmann Lichtenstein 1st author). Working paper, University of Hartford, CT, January 2002.
#20 “Foundations of New Social Science: Institutional Legitimacy from Philosophy, Complexity Science, Postmodernism, and Agent-based Modeling” (L. Henrickson 1st author). Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 99, 2002, 7288–7297. (9 page version)
#21 “Situated Learning Theory: Adding Rate and Complexity Effects via Kauffman’s NK Model” (Y. Yuan, 1st author). Resubmitted to Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, December 2002, 20 pages.
#22 “Managing Coevolutionary Dynamics: Some Leverage Points.” Submitted to Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Science, January 2003, 18 pages.
#23 “Emergent Order in Firms: Complexity Science vs. the Entanglement Trap.” In E. Mitleton-Kelly, (ed.), Organizations Are Complex Social Systems. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Pergamon, 2003, 15 pages.
#24 “Social Order-Creation Instability Dynamics: Heterogeneous Agents and Fast-Motion Science—on the 100th Anniversary of Bénard’s Dissertation,” Journal of Bioeconomics, 2003, 16 pages.
#25 “Postmodernism vs. Truth in Management Theory.” In Ed Locke, (ed.), Post: Modernism & Management: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives. Amsterdam, NL: Elsevier, 2003, 28 pages.
#26 “MicroStrategy from MacroLeadership: Distributed Intelligence via New Science.” In A. Y. Lewin and H. Volberda (eds.). Mobilizing the Self-Renewing Organization. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharp, 2003, 18 pages.
#27 “Transcendental Organizational Foresight in Nonlinear Contexts.” In H. Tsoukas and J. Shepard (eds.), Probing the Future: Developing Organizational Foresight in the Knowledge Economy. UK, 2003, 27 pages.
#28 Toward a Complexity Theory of Entrepreneurship,” Journal of Business Venturing, 2003, 23 pages.

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