Books

Recent Books by Co-faculty and Affiliates

Other books related to the study of complex systems

• Axelrod, Robert M., The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration

• Axelrod, Robert M., The Evolution of Cooperation

• Axelrod, Robert M. and Cohen, Michael D., Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier

• Bak, Per, How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality

• Barabási, Albert-László, Linked: The New Science of Networks

• Boisot, Max H., Information Space: A Framework for Learning in Organizations, Institutions and Culture

• Boisot, Max H., Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy

• Brown, Shona L. & Eisenhardt, Kathleen M., Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos

• Conner, Daryl R., Leading at the Edge of Chaos; How to Create the Nimble Organization

• Eve, Raymond A., Chaos, Complexity, and Sociology: Myths, Models, and Theories

• Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

• Gleick, James, Chaos: Making a New Science

• Hock, Dee W., The Chaordic Principle: Mixing Chaos and Order to Jump Start the Twenty-First Century

• Holland, John H., Emergence: From Chaos to Order

• Holland, John H., Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity

• Kauffman, Stuart A., At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity

• Kauffman, Stuart A., The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution

• Kiel, L. Douglas, Managing Chaos and Complexity in Government: A New Paradigm for Managing Change, Innovation, and Organizational Renewal

• Lewin, Roger, Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos

• Liu, Jiming, Jin, XiaoLong, and Tsui, Kwok Ching, Autonomy Oriented Computing: From Problem Solving to Complex Systems Modeling

• McMaster, Michael D., The Intelligence Advantage: Organizing for Complexity

• Merry, Uri et al, Coping With Uncertainty: Insights from the New Sciences of Chaos, Self-Organization, and Complexity

• Monks, Robert A. G., The Emperor's Nightingale: Restoring the Integrity of the Corporation in the Age of Shareholder Activism

• Nørretranders, Tor et al, The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

• Oshry, Barry, Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life

• Perrow, Charles, Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay

• Priesmeyer, Henry Richard, Organizations and Chaos: Defining the Methods of Nonlinear Management

• Schelling, Thomas C., Micro Motives and Macro Behavior

• Scott, Alwyn, Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science

• Simon, Herbert Alexander, The Sciences of the Artificial (especially last two chapters)

• Stacey, Ralph D., Complexity and Creativity in Organizations

• Stacey, Ralph D., Managing the Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations

• Stengers, Isabelle & Prigogine, Ilya, The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature

• Stewart, Ian & Cohen, Jack, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind

• Strogatz, Steven, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Engineering

• Strogatz, Steven, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order

• Waldrop, M. Mitchell, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

• Watts, Duncan J., Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

• Weick, Karl E., Sensemaking in Organizations

• Zohar, Danah, Rewiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations