The New England Complex Systems Institute and Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates are pleased to announce a new quarterly journal:
Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and
Management
Emergence publishes qualitative articles relating complex systems,
psychology, philosophy, semiotics, and cognitive science to the
management of organizations both public and private. The readers of
Emergence are managers, academics, consultants, and others interested in
the possibility of applying the insights of the science of complex
systems to day-to-day management and leadership problems.
First issue will be approximately February 1999
Emergence is interested in receiving work from a wide range of
perspectives: theoretical and practitioner based,both conventional
and unconventional methodologies,case study work, approaches to
teaching management or leadership, work covering a variety of
organizational types, size and ownership cross cultural studies and
work from Australasia and the Far East as well as the USA and Europe.
We ask that authors set their paper clearly within the context of the
notion of complexity and complex systems, however they chose to define
such, and that the practical implications and transferable lessons from
their work be clearly described. Note that quantitative studies
(including those which focus on survey results and related statistics)
are not suitable for Emergence.
All submittals, editing and reviewing for Emergence will be electronic
to allow for more rapid turnaround and timeliness of print publication.
Each published article will be given its own web site to post additional
material and to host an on-going discussion forum.
See the Call for Papers at http://emergence.org
Michael Lissack
Director, Organization Science Related Programs
New England Complex Systems Institute
http://lissack.com, http://necsi.org
lissack@lissack.com
phone -- 212-245-7055 fax -- 212-956-3464