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Complexity and the Experience of Values, Conflict and Compromise in Organizations
Stacey, Ralph (Routledge, 2008)What role do values play in organizational life? How do they shape the efficiency and effectiveness of organizational change? This volume examines what we actually mean when we use the term values and what it means to act ... -
Complexity and the group matrix
Stacey, R. (2001)This paper explores the potential that the natural sciences of complexity may have to offer analogies and insights with regard to communicative processes in a group and the concept of the group matrix. The paper briefly ... -
A complexity approach to leadership development : developing practical judgement
Flinn, Kevin; Mowles, Christopher (Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, 2014-01)Over recent years, complexity perspectives have been taken up more broadly in scholarship and teaching about leadership with leadership development providers such as Ashridge Business School, Roffey Park, Harvard Business ... -
The Complexity Dialogues : ‘Complicated’ and ‘Complex’ – the management difference
Dalcher, Darren; Remington, Kaye; Cavanagh, Michael (2013-05)In this article we resort to a different type of discussion about the pervasive issue of complexity. The article features a dialogue that attempts to distil our knowledge about complexity in projects and its resulting ... -
Complexity, habits and evolution
Hodgson, G. (University of Hertfordshire, 2009)This article addresses what are often described as ‘complex adaptive systems.’ Typically such systems involve populations of entities that store and replicate information. But these micro aspects are less fully explored ... -
Complexity, Projects and Systems : Just Going Around in Circles?
Dalcher, Darren (2015-12) -
Components reuse in the building sector – A systematic review
Rakhshan, Kambiz; Morel, Jean-Claude; Alaka, Hafiz; Charef, Rabia (2020-04)Widespread reuse of building components can promote the circularity of materials in the building sector. However, the reuse ofbuilding components is not yet a mainstream practise. Although there have been several studies ... -
A comprehensive and integrated hospital decision support system for efficient and effective healthcare services delivery using discrete event simulation
Ordu, Muhammed; Demir, Eren; Tofallis, Chris; Gunal, Murat (2023-12-31)The difficulty that hospital management has been experiencing over the past decade in balancing demand and capacity needs is unprecedented in the United Kingdom. Due to a shortage of capacity, hospitals cannot treat all ... -
A comprehensive modelling framework to forecast the demand for all hospital services
Ordu, Muhammed; Demir, Eren; Tofallis, Christopher (2019-03-22)Background: Because of increasing demand, hospitals in England are currently under intense pressure resulting in shortages of beds, nurses, clinicians, and equipment. To be able to effectively cope with this demand, the ... -
Computing Project Management
Dalcher, Darren (Middlesex University Press, 2003) -
The Concept of a Routine
Hodgson, G. (University of Hertfordshire, 2004)The significance of routines in modern, learning, innovating economies is widely appreciated.[1] Routines are vital to all organizations. Hence it is important to understand both how they can be built and how they can be ... -
The Concept of Subgame Perfection
Patokos, Tassos (2014)In mainstream game theory, the prominent solution concept for dynamic games is the “subgame perfect Nash equilibrium”. This concept combines the mathematical method of backward induction with the assumption of common ... -
The Concept of Subgame Perfection: Some Discontents
Patokos, Tassos (Nova Publishers, 2013)In mainstream game theory, the prominent solution concept for dynamic games is the “subgame perfect Nash equilibrium”. This concept combines the mathematical method of backward induction with the assumption of common ... -
Conceptualising the Impact of Festival and Event Attendance upon Family Quality of Life (QOL)
Jepson, Allan; Stadler, Raphaela (2017-02-15)Quality of Life (QOL) research has been quite well explored in medicine, psychology and the social sciences although it has received very little attention within festival and event studies. This proposition paper is both ... -
Conceptualizing Capitalism : Institutions, Evolution, Future
Hodgson, Geoffrey (University of Chicago Press, 2015-08-01) -
Conceptualizing Capitalism – A Summary
Hodgson, Geoffrey (2016-02-01)This essay summarizes key parts of the book Conceptualizing Capitalism (Hodgson 2015a). It briefly explains why institutions must be central to a definition of capitalism, and what is the nature and role of such a definition. ... -
Conceptualizing the Business Corporation: Insights from History
Gindis, David (2020-06-01)The purpose of this symposium is to shed light on the genealogy of the idea of a business corporation, an economic institution which has long been regarded with a mixture of awe and apprehension. Each of the four original ... -
Conclusion : Prospects for tourism in Asia
Michael Hall, C.; Page, Stephen J. (Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-09-15)One of the immediate problems the researcher faces in reconstructing patterns of tourism visitation, activity and expenditure is the absence of up-to-date, reliable and consistent tourism statistics. Whilst the United ... -
Conclusion to Social Inclusion and Usability of ICT-enabled Services
Tsatsou, Panayiota; Kurnia, Sherah; Choudrie, Jyoti (Routledge, 2017-11-03) -
Conclusion: The 'Crash' in Central and Eastern Europe
Hardy, Jane; Dale, Gareth (Pluto, 2011)