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Publications

Chronological List

Journal Articles

  1. Schein, E. H., B. McKelvey, D. R. Peters & J. M. Thomas 1965. “Career Orientations and Perceptions of Rewarded Activity in a Research Organization.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 9: 333–349.
  2. McKelvey B. 1969. “Expectational Noncomplementarity and Style of Interaction Between Professional and Organization.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 14: 21–32.
  3. Kilmann, R. H., & B. McKelvey 1975. “The MAPS Route to Better Organization Design.” California Management Review, 17: 23–31.
  4. McKelvey B., & R. H. Kilmann 1975. “Organization Design” A Participative Multivariate Approach.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 20: 24–36.
  5. McKelvey B. 1975. “Guidelines for the Empirical Classification of Organizations.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 20: 509–525.
  6. McKelvey B., & U. Sekaran 1977. “Toward a Career-Based Theory of Job Involvement: A Study of Scientists and Engineers.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 22: 281–305.
  7. McKelvey B. 1978. “Organizational Systematics: Taxonomic Lessons from Biology.” Management Science, 24: 1428–1440.
  8. Warriner, C. K., B. McKelvey & R. H. Hall 1981. “The Comparative Description of Organizations: A Research Note and Invitation.” Organization Studies, 2: 173–180.
  9. McKelvey, B., & H. Aldrich 1983. “Populations, Natural Selection, and Applied Organizational Science.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 28: 101–128.
  10. McKelvey B. 1983. “The Population Perspective and the Organizational Form Concept.” Economia Aziendale, 2: 63–86.
  11. Aldrich, H., D. Ulrich & B. McKelvey 1984. “Design Strategy from the Population Perspective.” Journal of Management, 10: 67–86.
  12. Ulrich, D., & B. McKelvey 1990. “General Organizational Classification: an Empirical Test Using the United States and Japanese Electronics Industries.” Organization Science, 1: 99–118.
  13. Madsen, T., & B. McKelvey. 1996. “Darwinian Dynamic Capability.” Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management, Cincinnati, OH, August.
  14. McKelvey B. 1997. “Quasi-natural Organization Science.” Organization Science, 8: 351–381.
  15. McKelvey B. 1998. “Complexity vs. Selection Among Coevolutionary Firms.” Comportamento Organizacionale Gestão, 4: 17–59.
  16. Knott, A. M., & B. McKelvey 1999. “Nirvana Efficiency: A Comparative Test of Residual Claims and Routines.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 41: 365–382.
  17. Maguire, S., & B. McKelvey 1999. “Complexity and Management: Moving from Fad to Firm Foundations.” Emergence, 1(2): 19–61.
  18. McKelvey B. 1999. “Avoiding Complexity Catastrophe in Coevolutionary Pockets: Strategies for Rugged Landscapes.” Organization Science, 10: 294–321.
  19. McKelvey B. 1999. “Complexity Theory in Organization Science: Seizing the Promise or Becoming a Fad?” Emergence, 1(1): 5–32.
  20. McKelvey B. 1999. “The Gurus Speak.” Emergence, 1(1): 73–91.
  21. McKelvey B. 2001. “Energizing Order-Creating Networks of Distributed Intelligence.” International Journal of Innovation Management, 5: 181–212.
  22. McKelvey B. 2001. “What Is Complexity Science? It’s Really Order-Creation Science.” Emergence, 3: 137–157.
  23. Henrickson, L., & B. McKelvey 2002. “Foundations of New Social Science: Institutional Legitimacy from Philosophy, Complexity Science, Postmodernism, and Agent-based Modeling.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 99(Suppl. 3): 7288–7297.
  24. McKelvey B. 2003. “Postmodernism vs. Truth in Management Theory.” In E. Locke, ed. Post Modernism and Management: Pro’s, Cons and the Alternative. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 21: 113–168. Amsterdam, NL: Elsevier Science.
  25. McKelvey B. 2004. “Toward a 0th Law of Thermodynamics: Order-Creation Complexity Dynamics from Physics & Biology to Bioeconomics” Journal of Bioeconomics, 6: 65–96.
  26. Yuan, Y., & B. McKelvey 2004. “Situated Learning Theory: Adding Rate and Complexity Effects via Kauffman’s NK Model.” Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 8: 65–101.
  27. McKelvey B. 2004. “Toward a Complexity Science of Entrepreneurship.” Journal of Business Venturing, 19: 313–341.
  28. McKelvey B. 2004. “Complexity Science as Order-creation Science: New Theory, New Method.” Emergence: Complexity and Organization, 6(4): 2–27.
  29. McKelvey, B., & P. Andriani 2005. “Why Gaussian Statistics are Mostly Wrong for Strategic Organization.” Strategic Organization, 3: 219–228.
  30. Thomas, C., R. Kaminska-Labbé & B. McKelvey 2005. Managing the MNC and Exploitation/Exploration Dilemma: From Static Balance to Dynamic Oscillation. In G. Szulanski, Y. Doz, & J. Porac, eds., Advances in Strategic Management: Expanding Perspectives on the Strategy Process, 22: 213–247.
  31. Madsen, T., & B. McKelvey 2005. “Dynamic Capabilities and Knowledge-Driven Micro-Evolution: Performance Effects of Intrafirm Variation, Selection and Retention Processes.” Research in Competence-based Management, 2: 3–38.
  32. Baum, J. A. C., & B. McKelvey 2006. “Analysis of Extremes in Management.” Chapter in D. Ketchen and D. Bergh, eds., Methodology in Strategy and Management, 3: 123–197.
  33. Benbya, H., & B. McKelvey 2006. “Toward a Complexity Theory of Information Systems Development.” Information Technology and People, 19: 12–34.
  34. McKelvey B. 2006. “Comment on Van de Ven and Johnson’s ‘Engaged Scholarship’: Nice Try, But…” Academy of Management Review, October  31: 822–829.
  35. Merali, J., & B. McKelvey 2006. “Using Complexity Science to Effect a Paradigm Shift in Information Systems for the 21st Century.” Journal of Information Technology, 21: 211–215.
  36. Benbya, H., & B. McKelvey 2006. “Using Coevolutionary and Complexity Theories to Improve IS Alignment: A Multi-level Approach  Journal of Information Technology, 21: 284–298.
  37. Uhl-Bien, M., R. Marion & B. McKelvey 2007. “Complex Leadership: Shifting Leadership from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Era.” The Leadership Quarterly, 18: 298–318.
  38. Boisot, M., and McKelvey, B. 2007. “Extreme Events, Power Laws, and Adaptation: Towards an Econophysics of Organization.” Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Conference, Philadelphia, PA, August.
  39. Andriani, P., & B. McKelvey 2007. “Beyond Gaussian Averages: Redirecting Organization Science Toward Extreme Events and Power Laws.” Journal of International Business Studies, 38(7): 1212–1230.
  40. Wycisk, C., B. McKelvey & M. Hülsmann 2008. “Smart Parts” Logistics Systems as Complex Adaptive Systems.” International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 38(2), 108–125.
  41. Andriani, P., B. McKelvey 2008: “Management Research and Best Practice Toward Complexity, Extreme Events and Power Laws.” Quaderni di Management, 34: 63–87.
  42. Carbonara, N., I. Giannoccaro, & B. McKelvey 2009. “Making Geographical Clusters More Successful: Complexity-based Policies.” Emergence: Complexity and Organization, 11(4).
  43. McKelvey, B. 2009. “Commensurability, Rhetoric, & Ephemera: Searching for Clarity in a Cloud of Critique. Ephemera, 8: 420–432.   http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/index.htm.
  44. Han, M., and McKelvey, B. 2008. “Toward a Social Capital Theory of Technology-based New Ventures as Complex Adaptive Systems.” International Journal of Accounting and Information Management, 16: 36–61.
  45. McKelvey, B., C. Wycisk, & M. Hülsmann 2009. Designing Learning Capabilities of Complex ‘Smart Parts’ Logistics Markets: Lessons from LeBaron’s Stock Market Computational Model.” International Journal of Production Economics (Summer).
  46. Andriani, P., & B. McKelvey 2009. “From Gaussian to Paretian Thinking: Causes and Implications of Power Laws in Organizations.” Organization Science, 20(6).
  47. Shepard, J., & B. McKelvey 2009. “An Empirical Investigation of Organizational Memetic Variation.” Journal of Bioeconomics (Summer).
  48. Andriani, P., & B. McKelvey 2009. “Avoiding Extreme Risk Before it Occurs: Scalability Lessons from Complexity Science.” Revise and resubmit at Risk Management: An International Journal.
  49. McKelvey, B., P. Andriani, M. Boisot, & A. Lewin. Forthcoming. “Why Pareto-based Organization Science is Necessary.” Organization Science.

Chapters in Books

  1. McKelvey, B. 1976. “Toward More Comprehensive Organization Design Objectives.” In R. H. Kilmann, L. Pondy and D. Slevin, eds., The Management of Organization Design, New York: Elsevier, 27–52.
  2. McKelvey, B. 1980. “Organizational Speciation.” In C. Pinder and L. Moore, eds., Middle Range Theories of Organizations and Organizational Behavior, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 169–186.
  3. McKelvey, B. 1986. “Organizational Decline from the Population Perspective.” In K. S. Cameron, R. I. Sutton and D. A. Whetten, eds., Readings in Organizational Decline, Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 399–410.
  4. McKelvey, B. 1994. “Evolution and Organization Science.” In J. A. C. Baum and J. V. Singh, eds., Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations, New York: Oxford, 314–326.
  5. Mosakowski, E. & B. McKelvey 1997. “Predicting Rent Generation in Competence-Based Competition.” In A. Heene & R. Sanchez, eds., Competence-Based Strategic Management, Wiley, 65–85.
  6. McKelvey, B. 1999. “Complexity vs. Selection Among Coevolutionary Firms.” Reprinted in M. P. e Cunha and C. A. Marques, eds., Readings in Organization Science, Lisbon, Portugal: Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, 241–296.
  7. McKelvey, B., & J. A. C. Baum 1999. “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, 1–15.
  8. McKelvey, B. 1999. “Self-Organization, Complexity Catastrophes, and Microstate Models at the Edge of Chaos.” In Variations…, 279–307.
  9. McKelvey, B. 1999. “Toward a Campbellian Realist Organization Science.” In Variations…, 383–411.
  10. McKelvey, B. 2000. “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, 217–253.
  11. McKelvey, B. 2002. “Model-Centered Organization Science Epistemology,” plus “Glossary of Epistemology Terms.” In J. A. C. Baum ed., Companion to Organizations, Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 752–780, 889–898.
  12. McKelvey, B. 2002. “Complexity and Leadership.” In M. Lissack, ed., The Interaction of Complexity and Management. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 85–90.
  13. McKelvey, B. 2003. “From Fields to Science.” In R. Westwood & S. Clegg, eds., Debating Organization: Point-Counterpoint in Organization Studies, Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 47–73.
  14. McKelvey, B. 2003. “Emergent Order in Firms: Complexity Science vs. the Entanglement Trap.” In E. Mitleton-Kelly, ed., Complex Systems and Evolutionary Perspectives on Organizations, Amsterdam, NL: Elsevier Science, 99–125.
  15. McKelvey, B. 2004. “‘Simple Rules’ for Improving Corporate IQ: Basic Lessons from Complexity Science. In P. Andriani and G. Passiante, eds., Complexity Theory and the Management of Networks. London: Imperial College Press, 39–52.
  16. Madsen, T. & B. McKelvey 2005. “Evolutionary Components of Dynamic Capabilities: Performance Effects of Intrafirm Selection Processes.” Research in Competence-Based Management, 2: 3–38.
  17. McKelvey, B. 2005. “Teoria della complessita' negli studi organizzativi” [“Modeling Complexity Dynamics in Organizations.”] In V. Albino, N. Carbonara & I. Giannoccaro, eds., Organizzazioni e Complessita': Muoversi tra ordine e caos per affrontare il cambiamento [Organizations as Complex Systems: An Agent-based Computational Approach]. Milano, Italy: Franco Angeli, 81–116.
  18. Boisot, M, & B. McKelvey. 2006. “Speeding Up Strategic Foresight in a Dangerous, Complex World: A Complexity Approach.” In G. G. S. Suder, ed., Corporate Strategies Under International Terrorism and Adversity. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 20–37.
  19. Boisot, M, & B. McKelvey. 2006. “A Socio/Computational Method for Staying Ahead of Terrorist and Other Adversities.” In G. G. S. Suder, ed., Corporate Strategies Under International Terrorism and Adversity. Cheltenham, UK: Elgar, 38–55.
  20. Maguire, S., B. McKelvey, L. Mirabeau & N. Öztas. 2006. “Complexity Science and Organization Studies.” In S. Clegg, C. Hardy, & T. Lawrence, eds., Handbook of Organizational Studies (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 165–214.
  21. McKelvey, B. & B. B. Lichtenstein 2007. “Leadership in Four Stages of Emergence.” In J. K. Hazy, J. Goldstein & B. B. Lichtenstein, eds.,Complex Systems Leadership Theory. Mansfield, MA: ISCE Publishing Company, 93-107.
  22. Panzer, C., J. K. Hazy, B. McKelvey & D. R. Schwandt 2007. The paradox of complex organizations: Leadership as multiplexed influence”. In J. K. Hazy, J. Goldstein & B. B. Lichtenstein, eds., Complex Systems Leadership Theory. Mansfield, MA: ISCE Publishing Company, 305–325.
  23. McKelvey, B. 2008. “Emergent Strategy via Complexity Leadership: Using Complexity Science & Adaptive Tension to Build Distributed Intelligence.” In M. Uhl-Bien & R. Marion, eds., Complexity and Leadership, Volume I: Conceptual Foundations. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 225-268.
  24. McKelvey, B. & M. Boisot 2009. “Redefining Strategic Foresight: “Fast” and “Far” Sight via Complexity Science.” In L. Costanzo & B. MacKay, eds., Handbook of Research on Strategy and Foresight. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 15–47.
  25. McKelvey, B., B. B. Lichtenstein & P. Andriani 2009. “When Systems and Ecosystems Collide: Is There a Law of Requisite Fractality Imposing on Firms?” In M. J. Lopez Moreno, ed., Chaos and Complexity in Organizations and Society. Madrid, Spain: UNESA.
  26. McKelvey, B. 2010. "A Scientific Realist Epistemology for Complexity Science." In P. Allen, S. Maguire, & B. McKelvey (eds.), Handbook of Complexity and Management. London: Sage.
  27. Andriani, P., & B. McKelvey 2010. “From Skew Distributions to Power Law Science.” In P. Allen, S. Maguire, & B. McKelvey, eds., Handbook of Complexity and Management. London: Sage.
  28. Boisot, M., & B. McKelvey 2010. “Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety: A Complexity Perspective.” In P. Allen, S. Maguire, & B. McKelvey, eds., Handbook of Complexity and Management. London: Sage.
  29. McKelvey, B. 2010. "Murray Gell-Mann: Celebrating Connectivity Dynamics Among Agents in Organizations--From Deep Simplicity to Requisite Fractality." In Olivier Germain (ed), Les Grands Inspirateurs de la Théorie des Organisations. Caen, Fr: Editions Management et Socété (EMS).
  30. McKelvey, B. 2010 "Fixing the UK's Economy." In J. McGlade, M. Strathern & K. RIchardson (eds.), Complexity in Human and Natural Systems. Litchfield Park, AZ: ISCE Publishing.
  31. McKelvey, B. & R. Yalamova. 2010. "Introduction to Econophysics: Correlated Trader Behaviours, Bubbles & Crashes, Scalability Dynamics, Power Laws & Scale-free Theories." In G. Sundström & E. Hollnagel (eds.), Governance and Control of Financial Systems: A Resilience Engineering Perspective.
  32. McKelvey, B. & R. Yalamova. 2010. "The Build-up to the 2007 Liquidity Crisis: An Example of Scalability Dynamics In Action." In G. Sunderström & E. Hollnagel (eds.), Governance and Control of Financial Systems.
  33. Yalamova, R., & B. McKelvey. 2010. "Using Power Laws and the Hurst Coefficient to Identify Stock Market Trading Bubbles." In G. Sunderström & E. Hollnagel (eds.), Governance and Control of Financial Systems: A Resilience Engineering Perspective.
  34. McKelvey, B. & R. Yalamova. 2010. "Financial Resilience Engineering: Toward Automatic Action Formulas Against Risk & Reckless Endangerment." In G. Sunderström & E. Hollnagel (eds.), Governance and Control of Financial Systems.

Working Papers Since 1994

  1. McKelvey, B. 1994.  “Process Meta-theory: Toward a Generative Code,” 45 pages.
  2. McKelvey, B. 1995. “Absorbing Stochastic Idiosyncrasy: Scientific Realism, Value Chain Coevolution, and Directive Correlation Envelopes, June, 49 pages.
  3. McKelvey, B. 1995. “Delimiting Stochastic Idiosyncrasy: Phase States of Adaptive Progression, Metabolic Rates, and Levels of Predictability, July, 43 pages.
  4. McKelvey, B. 1995. “Process Architecture—Toward a Reductionist Generative Code, 18 pages.
  5. Cho, S-H., & McKelvey, B. 1996. “A Resource Gradient Theory of Industry Competition Groups and The Stock Return Method,” 26 pages.
  6. McKelvey, B. 1997. “Organizational Epistemology: Quivering in the Dust.” July, 30 pages.
  7. McKelvey, B. 1997. “Organizational Positivism: Separating Myth from Reality.” November, 27 pages.
  8. McKelvey, B. 1997. “Organizational Realism: A Dynamic Semantic Conception.” November, revised March 1998, 47 pages.
  9. McKelvey, B. 1998. “‘Good’ Science from Postmodernist Ontology: Realism, Complexity Theory, and Emergent Dissipative Structures.” January, 34 pages.
  10. McKelvey, B. 1998. “Thwarting Faddism at the Edge of Chaos.” June, 38 pages.
  11. Knott, A. M., M. Aoki & B. McKelvey 1998. “The Socio-Economics of Knowledge Diffusion Rates: A Ewens Based Random Partition Evolutionary Model,” 40 pages.
  12. McKelvey, B. 1998. “What Is Theory? Really. Toward a Model-Centered Organization Science.” August, 26 pages.
  13. Knott, A. M., & B. McKelvey 1999. “Knowledge Dynamics: Reconciling Competing Hypotheses from Economics and Sociology,” 54 pages.
  14. McKelvey, B. 2000.“Using Complexity Science to Develop the Corporate Brain,” 45 pages.
  15. McKelvey, B. 2000. “Emergent Distributed Intelligence as a Rent-Generating Competence: A New Competence-Based Perspective.” April 21, 2000, 25 pages.
  16. McKelvey, B. 2001. “Foundations of New Social Science: Institutional Legitimacy from Philosophy, Complexity Science, Postmodernism, and Agent-based Modeling.” September, 25 pages. (long version)
  17. McKelvey, B. 2002. “Transcendental Organizational Foresight in Nonlinear Contexts.” July.
  18. Lichtenstein, B. B., & B. McKelvey 2003. “Four Degrees of Emergence: A Typology of Complexity and Implication for Management,” Syracuse University, NY, May, 43pages.
  19. McKelvey, B. 2003. “How Scientists Can Keep the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive: Evolving Past Darwin on the 100th Anniversary of Bénard.”
  20. Boisot, M., & B. McKelvey 2004. “Counter-Terrorism as Neighborhood Watch: A Socio/Computational Approach…”  INSEAD, Fontainebleau, Fr.
  21. Uhl-Bien, M., R. Marion & B. McKelvey 2005. “A Simple-Rule Approach to CEO Leadership in the 21st Century.” University of Central Florida, FL.
  22. Benbya, H., & B. McKelvey 2005. “Managing Complexity and Coevolution Dynamics in the Design of Knowledge Management Systems.”
  23. Boisot, M., & B. McKelvey 2005. “Enron and the Challenge of Requisite Variety: Auditing as an Open Source Process.” INSEAD, Fontainebleau, Fr.
  24. Uhl-Bien, M., R. Marion & B. McKelvey 2005. “Leadership for the Post-Industrial Era,” University of Central Florida, FL.
  25. Sachs, W., M. Dieleman, J. Fendt, R. Kaminska-Labbé, C. Thomas, & B. McKelvey 2006. “Managing Dilemmas in Organizations: Irregular Oscillation and Coevolving Causalities.” CERAM, Sophia Antipolis, Fr.
  26. Lichtenstein, B. B., & B. McKelvey 2006. “Complexity Science and Computational Models of Emergent Order: What’s There? What’s Missing?” U. Mass. Boston.
  27. Lewin, A., & B. McKelvey 2006. Attribution of Leadership Effectiveness: The Challenge of Assessing Outlier Phenomena,” Presented at Academy of Management Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, August.
  28. Mackey, A., P. K. Kiousis & B. McKelvey 2006. “Can the CEO Churning Problem be Fixed? Lessons from Complexity Science, Jack Welch & AIDS.” Presented at Academy of Management Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, August.
  29. Thomas, C., R. Kaminska-Labbé & B. McKelvey 2007. “Managing the Control/Autonomy Dilemma: From Impossible Balance to Irregular Oscillation Dynamics.” University of Nice, Fr. 
  30. Benbya, H., & B. McKelvey 2007. “Using Pareto-based Science to Enhance Knowledge for Practical Relevance.” Montpellier, Fr.
  31. McKelvey, B. 2008. “Toward an Epistemology of Pareto-based Science: How to Research Rank/Frequency Distributions?” Presented at the Organization Science Winter Conference XIV, Squaw Valley, CA, Feb. 8.
  32. Boisot, M., and McKelvey, B. 2008. “Extreme Events, Power Laws, and Adaptation: Towards an Econophysics of Organization.” University of Birmingham, UK.
  33. Kaminska-Labbé, R., B. McKelvey & C. Thomas 2008. “On the Coevolution of Causality: A Study of Aristotelian Causes & Other Entangled Influences” CERAM, Sophia Antipolis, Fr.
  34. Kaminska-Labbé, R., Thomas, C., and McKelvey, B. 2008. “Renewing Dynamic Capabilities at Times of Crisis: The Roles of Semistructures and Scalable Complexity.” CERAM, Sophia Antipolis, Fr.
  35. Andriani, P., and McKelvey, B. 2008. “Managing in a Pareto World Calls for New Thinking.” Durham University, UK.
  36. Boisot, M., and McKelvey, B. 2009. “Complexity Science: A Bridge between Modernist and Postmodernist Perspectives on Organizations.” University of Birmingham, UK.
  37. Han, M., & B. McKelvey 2009. “Redefining the Social Capital Basis of Technology-based New Ventures: Lessons from Adaptation & Complexity Theories.” Rogers Business School, Ryerson U. Toronto, CA.
  38. Yalamova, R., & B. McKelvey 2009. “Explaining What Leads Up to Stock Market Crashes: A Phase Transition Model and Scalability Dynamics.” University of Lethbridge, CA.
  39. Kiousis, P. K., and McKelvey, B. 2009. “Are Markets Perfectly Competitive in the Long Run? The Persistence of Market Power in US Manufacturing.” Ohio State.
  40. Kiousis, P. K., & B. McKelvey 2009. “Do Capabilities Enhance Efficiency: A Stochastic-Frontier Estimation based on US Industry.” Ohio State.

 

 

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