Introduction to the strategy and methods of complex systems

Bar‐Yam, Yaneer

doi:10.4337/9781785364426.00009

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“…Systems theory posits that a system can be optimized by eliminating reductionist approaches to its operation and management (Bar-Yam, 2018; Johnson et al ., 1964; Teece and Pisano, 1998). By integrating the value chain end-to-end (Bartodziej, 2017; Wang et al ., 2016), Industry 4.0 appeals to systems or holistic organization of the production enterprise rather than a reductionist approach to delivering value.…”

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Driving smartness for organizational performance through Industry 4.0: a systems perspective

Abiodun

Rampersad

Brinkworth

2023

JMTM

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PurposeThe internationalization of business has grown the production value chains and created performance challenges for industrial production. Industry 4.0, the digital transformation of industrial processes, promises to deliver performance improvements through smart functionalities. This study investigates how digital transformation translates to performance gain by adopting a systems perspective to drive smartness.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses qualitative research to collect data on the lived experiences of digital transformation practitioners for theory development. It uses semi-structured interviews with industry experts and applies the Gioia methodology for analysis.FindingsThe study determined that enterprise smartness is an organizational capability developed by digital transformation, it is a function of integration and the enabler of organizational performance gains in the Industry 4.0 context. The study determined that performance gains are experienced in productivity, sustainability, safety and customer experience, which represents performance metrics for Industry 4.0.Research limitations/implicationsThis study contributes a model that inserts smartness in the linkage between digital transformation and organizational outcomes to the digital transformation and production management literature.Practical implicationsThe study indicates that digital transformation programs should focus on developing smartness rather than technology implementations, which must be considered an enabling activity.Originality/valueExisting studies recognized the positive impact of technology on performance in industrial production. The study addresses a missing link in the Industry 4.0 value creation process. It adopts a systems perspective to establish the role of smartness in translating technology use to performance outcomes. Smart capabilities have been the critical missing link in the literature on harnessing digital transformation in organizations. The study advances theory development by contributing an Industry 4.0 value model that establishes a link between digital technologies, smartness and organizational performance.

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Driving smartness for organizational performance through Industry 4.0: a systems perspective

Abiodun

Rampersad

Brinkworth

2023

JMTM

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“…For many of these scholars, the world is comprised of networks, and we have reached the limits of reductionist approaches based in Newtonian science (Barabási 2011). Much of this research dovetailed with the development of complexity science, which is concerned with identifying and describing the emergent properties of complex systems (O'Sullivan 2004; Bar‐Yam 2018; Turnbull et al 2018). Despite the growth of network research during the early 2000s, the various network traditions remained remarkably disconnected from each other (Knox et al 2006).…”

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A missing link? Network analysis as an empirical approach for critical physical geography

Chignell

2022

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Methods and concepts from network analysis can provide valuable empirics and novel insights for critical physical geography and related fields.• Network approaches can help to bridge human-physical and qualitative-quantitative divides in geographical research. • Critical physical geographers and network scholars have much to gain from collaboration.Critical physical geography (CPG) calls for integrative research on material landscapes and the socio-political dynamics of scientific knowledge production. Network analysis, a rich tradition of tools and approaches for analyzing relational information, has seen little use in the CPG literature to date. This represents a fruitful opportunity, as many of CPG's core interests-knowledge politics, histories of scientific concepts, and ecosocial relations-can be effectively analyzed using network techniques. In this article, I argue for adapting network approaches to CPG. First, I provide an overview of various network concepts, approaches, and their origins. I then discuss bibliometric network techniques for "science mapping" including co-word, co-authorship, and citation analyses. Next, I describe discourse network analysis, a recent mixed-method approach from political science. Finally, I discuss overlaps with emerging approaches from qualitative and visual network analysis. In each section, I provide existing and hypothetical examples, as well as software and visualization techniques, that demonstrate how network approaches could add new insights to CPG and related scholarship. Linking CPG with the diverse traditions of network analysis has the potential to produce new empirical understandings and bring the field into conversation with a growing body of research that spans the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities.

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Introduction to the strategy and methods of complex systems

Cited by 2 publications

References 42 publications

Driving smartness for organizational performance through Industry 4.0: a systems perspective

Driving smartness for organizational performance through Industry 4.0: a systems perspective

A missing link? Network analysis as an empirical approach for critical physical geography

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