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Global Business and Organizational Excellence

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 44-50

  Karakas, Fahri ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 34249652381     PISSN: 19322054     EISSN: 19322062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joe.20143     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. The basic concept of dynamic and organic systems is that all things tend to organize themselves into patterns, e.g., ant colonies, immune systems, and human cultures; furthermore, they go through cycles of growth, mass extinction, regeneration, and evolution.
2. Chaos theory encompasses a set of ideas that attempt to reveal structure in aperiodic, unpredictable dynamic systems such as cloud formation or the fluctuation of biological populations. Nonlinear dynamic systems are those where the relationships between time dependent variables are nonlinear. For example, according to the butterfly effect, small differences in initial conditions can quickly lead to large differences in the future state of a system. Chaos theory and complexity sciences provide insights into the nature of complex adaptive systems, those that respond to both feedback and feed forward and are operating in turbulent environments.