Lost in Transition? Complexity in Organisational Behaviour – the Contributions of Systems Theories

Abstract

Lost in Transition? Complexity in Organisational Behaviourthe Contributions of Systems Theories ** The article demonstrates the usefulness of concepts and methods from systems theories for Organisational Behaviour (OB). Diagnosing development areas in OB, especially the analysis of whole systems and the degree of operationalisation and formalisation of core constructs and assumptions, the article uses the complexity hypothesis in career research to illustrate the opportunities and limitations of concepts and methods from systems theories. Finally, the consequences of such an approach for OB are discussed.

The Breakdown of the Traditional Mechanistic Worldview, the Development of Complexity Sciences and the Pretence of Knowledge in Economics

“…Examples include methods that can be circumscribed with the keywords grammar complexity, recurrence plots, Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy or permutation entropy. Cp., e.g., [61,62,69]. 39 This term has been borrowed from Latin.…”