Self-organizing systems theory: Historical challenges to new sciences

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 119-134

  Houston, Renée ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 49449113855     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318999131006     Document Type: Note

References (42)

1. Arthur, W. B. (1989, March). Competing technologies, increasing returns, and lock-in by historical events. The Economic Journal, 116-131.
2. Ashby, R. (1956). Introduction to cybernetics. New York: John Wiley.
3. Bateson, G. (1979). Mind and nature: A necessary unity. New York: Dutton.
4. Berggren, D. (1963). The use and abuse of metaphor: II. Review of Metaphysics, 16, 450-472.
5. Briggs, J., & Peat, F. D. (1989). Turbulent mirror: An illustrated guide to chaos theory and the science of wholeness. New York: Harper & Row.
6. Capra, F. (1996). The web of life. New York: Doubleday.
7. Chomsky, N. (1980). Rules and representations. New York: Columbia University Press.
8. Contractor, N. S. (1994). Self-organizing systems perspective in organizational communication. In B. Kovacic (Ed.), New perspectives in organizational communication (pp. 39-65). Albany: SUNY Press.
9. Contractor, N. S., & Seibold, D. (1993). Theoretical frameworks for the study of structuring processes in group decision support systems: Adaptive structuration and self-organizing systems theory. Human Communication Research, 19, 528-563.
10. Cottone, L. (1993). The perturbing worldview of chaos: Implications for public relations. Public Relations Review, 19, 167-176.
11. Coveney, P. V., & Highfield, J.R.L. (1990). The arrow of time: A voyage through science to solve time's greatest mystery. New York: Fawcett Columbine.
12. Danziger, K. (1990). Generative metaphor and the history of psychology discourse. In D. E. Leary (Ed.), Metaphors in the history of psychology (pp. 331-356). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
13. Goldstein, J. (1994). The unshackled organization. Portland, OR: Productivity Press.
14. Gray, C., Mentor, S., & Figueroa-Sarriera, H. (1995). Cyborgology: Constructing the knowledge of cybernetic organisms. In C. Gray, H. Figueroa-Sarriera, & S. Mentor (Eds.), The cyborg handbook (pp. 1-16). New York: Routledge.
15. Gregersen, H., & Sailer, L. (1993). Chaos theory and its implications for social science research. Human Relations, 46, 777-802.
16. Hayles, N. K. (1991). Chaos and order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
17. Katz, D., & Kahn, R. L. (1967). The social psychology of organizations. New York: John Wiley.
18. Keeney, B. P. (1983). Aesthetics of change. New York: Guilford.
19. Lorenz, C. (1963). Deterministic nonperiodic flow. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 20, 130-141.
20. Maturana, H. R., & Varela, F. (1980). Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living. Boston: D.Reidel.
21. Maturana, H. R., & Varela, F. J. (1987). The tree of knowledge. Boston: Shambala.
22. Mead, M. (1968). Cybernetics of cybernetics. In H. von Foerster, J. D. White, L. J. Peterson, & J. K. Russell (Eds.), Purposive systems: The First Annual Symposium of the American Society for Cybernetics. New York: Spartan.
23. Morgan, G. (1986). Images of organization. London: Sage.
24. Morgan, G. (1993). Imaginization: The art of creative management. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
25. Prigogine, I. (1980). From being to becoming. San Francisco: Freeman.
26. Prigogine, I., & Stengers, I. (1984). Order out of chaos: Man's new dialogue with nature. Toronto: Bantam.
27. Steier, F. (1991). Research and reflexivity. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
28. Svyantek, D. J., & DeShon, R. P. (1993). Organizational attractors: A chaos theory explanation of why cultural change efforts often fail. Public Administration Quarterly, 337-353.
29. Taylor, J. R. (1995). Shifting from a heterotonomous to an autonomous worldview of organizational communication: Communication theory on the cusp. Communication Theory, 5(1), 1-35.
30. Theitart, R. A., & Forgues, B. (1995). Chaos theory and organization. Organizational Science, 6(1), 19-31.
31. Varela, F. (1987). Laying down a path in walking. In W. I. Thompson (Ed.), Gaia, A way of knowing: Political implications of the new biology (pp. 48-64). San Francisco: Lindisfarne.
32. Varela, F., Thompson, E., & Rosch, E. (1991). The embodied mind. Cambridge: MIT Press.
33. von Bertalanffy, L. (1968). General system theory: Foundations, development, applications. New York: George Braziller.
34. von Foerster, H. (Ed.). (1962). Principles of self-organization. New York: Pergamon.
35. von Foerster, H. (1974). Cybernetics of cybernetics or the control of control and the communication of communication. Urbana: Biological Computer Laboratory, University of Illinois.
36. von Krogh, G., & Roos, J. (1995). Organizational epistemology. New York: St. Martin's.
37. Wheatley, M. (1992). Leadership and the new science: Learning about organizations from an orderly universe. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
38. Wiener, N. (1961). Cybernetics. Cambridge: MIT Press.
39. Wilson, E. O. (1998a, May). Back from chaos. Atlantic Monthly, 41-60.
40. Wilson, E. O. (1998b). Consilience: The unity of knowledge. New York: Alfred A.Knopf.
41. Wolfram, S. (1984). Cellular automata as models of complexity. Physica, 10D, 1-35.
42. Wolfram, S. (Ed.). (1986). Theory and applications of cellular automata. Singapore, China: World Scientific.