Epistemology of "New" Social Science

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#1 Part I: Process Architecture: Toward a Reductionist Generative Code.” Working paper, 1995, 18 pages.
#2 “Absorbing Stochastic Idiosyncrasy: Scientific Realism, Value Chain Coevolution, and Directive Correlation Envelopes.” Working paper, June 1995, 36 pages.
#3 “Delimiting Stochastic Idiosyncrasy: Phase States of Adaptive Progression, Metabolic Rates, and Levels of Predictability.” Working paper, July 1995, 43 pages.
#4 “Organizational Epistemology.” Working paper, July 1997, 34 pages.
#5 Quasi-natural Organization Science,Organization Science, 8, 1997, 351–381.
#6 Organizational Positivism: Separating Myth from Reality.” Working paper, November 1997, 27 pages.
#7 ‘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.
#8 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.
#9 “What is Theory? Really: Toward a Model-Centered Organization Science.” Working paper, July 1998, 26 pages.
#10 Donald T. Campbell’s Evolving Influence on Organization Science.” In J. A. C. Baum and B. McKelvey (eds.), Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T. Campbell. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1999, 1–15 (with J. A. C. Baum).
#11 Toward a Campbellian Realist Organization Science.” In Variations…. 1999, 383–411.
#12 Complexity Theory in Organization Science: Seizing the Promise or Becoming a Fad?Emergence, 1(1), 1999, 5–32.
#13 Complexity and Management: Moving from Fad to Firm Foundations” (S. Maguire 1st author), Emergence, 1(2), 1999, 19–61.
#14 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, 19pages.
#15 Toward a Model-Centered Strategy Science: More Experiments, Less History.” In R. Sanchez and A. Heene (eds.), Research in Competence-Based Management. Greenwich CT: JAI Press, 2000: 217–253.
#16 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 pages)
#17 Model-Centered Organization Science Epistemology.” In J. A. C. Baum (ed.) Companion to Organizations. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002, 752–780, + Glossary of Epistemology Terms, 889–898.
#18 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.
#19 “From Fields to Science,” in R. Westwood & S. Clegg (eds.). Point/Counterpoint: Central Debates in Organization Theory. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2003, 20 pages.
#20 Postmodernism vs. Truth in Management Theory,” in E. Locke, (ed.). Post: Modernism & Management: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives. Amsterdam, NL: Elsevier, 2003, 28 pages.
#21 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, 13 pages.
#22 “Toward a Complexity Theory of Entrepreneurship,” Journal of Business Venturing, 2003, 23 pages.

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