Planning and Chaos Theory

Cartwright, Timothy J.

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“…When a pairing works, the constituents stay together and attract other constituents. In this way, subsystems are formed in systems (Bertalanffy 1969;Cartwright 1991). Subsystems exist in coalitions as well.…”

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Convergence: Finding Collective Voice in Global Civil Society©

Magis

2009

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This study investigated the question of how civil society groups cross political, cultural, social, economic, and language boundaries to find common ground and to act collectively in coalitions to effect international change. A set of constituents emerged in answer to the research question; Complementarity, Speed and Democracy, Rules of Engagement, Contingent Alliance, and Convergence. Convergence emerged as a central and unifying construct. Convergence is the uniting of people who are different, or even opposed, around a common cause. It is based on the presumption that diversity is critical to coalition success and that it needs be employed to leverage its many potential benefits. The analyses led to the conceptualization of the Convergence System, a model that employs global civil society (GCS) diversity to discern complementarity within GCS coalitions, to discover Points of Convergence, and to facilitate collective action toward shared objectives, thus enabling efficacious action by GCS within the international polity.Résumé Cette étude examine comment les groupes de la société civile traversent les frontières politiques, culturelles, sociales et économiques pour trouver un terrain d'entente et agir collectivement en coalitions afin d'apporter des changements au niveau international. Un groupe constitué des parties prenantes a vu le jour pour répondre à la question objet de la recherche, à savoir : complémentarité, vitesse et démocratie, règles d'engagement, alliance des délégations et convergence/points communs. La convergence s'est révélée être une notion centrale et fédératrice. Elle est la réunion de personnes différentes, voire adverses, autour d'une cause commune. Elle est basée sur la supposition que la diversité est indispensable pour le succès de la coalition et qu'elle doit être utilisée pour tirer parti de ses nombreux avantages potentiels. Les analyses ont ouvert la voie à la modélisation d'un « système de convergence » , modèle qui utilise la diversité culturelle de la société civile internationale (SCI) pour discerner la complémentarité au sein des coalitions de la SCI, découvrir des points de convergence, et faciliter l'action collective en direction d'objectifs partagés, permettant ainsi une action efficace par la SCI dans le cadre de la politie internationale.Zusammenfassung Diese Studie untersuchte die Frage, wie zivilgesellschaftliche Gruppen politische, kulturelle, soziale, ökonomische und sprachliche Grenzen überwinden, um Gemeinsamkeiten zu finden und gemeinsam in Koalitionen agieren, um Ä nderungen auf internationaler Ebene zu bewirken. In Beantwortung der Forschungsfrage sind eine Reihe Komponenten zu Tage getreten: Complementarity (Komplementation), Speed and Democracy (Geschwindigkeit und Demokratie), Rules of Engagement (Einsatzregeln), Contingent Alliance (Eventualbündnis) und Convergence (Konvergenz). Konvergenz stellte sich als zentrales und vereinigendes Konstrukt heraus. Konvergenz ist die Vereinigung von unterschiedlichen oder auch gegensätzlichen Leuten um eine gemeinsame Sac...

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Convergence: Finding Collective Voice in Global Civil Society©

Magis

2009

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“…Organizational theorists have embraced the concepts of CAS for nearly 20 years as a viable lens to view organizational change, leadership, strategic management, and other organizational behavior from a holistic/contextual perspective; early examples include Tushman et al (1986), Cartwright (1991), Stacey (1992), Wheatley (1992), Zimmerman (1993), Levy (1994), & Mintzberg (1994. CAS theory views organizations as open, non-linear dynamical systems that adapt and evolve in the process of interacting with their environments where outcomes of their actions are unpredictable, but not random.…”

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Public Accounting in the New Millenium: On the Edge of Chaos

Kuhn¹

2012

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Change is a constant feature of organizational existence. Successfully managing change requires an understanding of the environment in which an organization operates. The complex and interconnected world in which public accounting operates presents many challenges to the traditional neo-classical view of research and management. Awareness of the constantly-changing, networked environment and the dynamics of agent interactions offers distinct competitive advantages to the astute. The current paper strives to convey the appropriateness and necessity for recognizing the public accounting profession as a complex adaptive system (CAS) that operates in an ever-changing, unpredictable environment impacted by local and global politico-economic entities, professional organizations, clientele, internal organizational members, higher education institutions, technological advances, and others. Drawing on complexity theory, the paper develops and presents testable propositions to examine the public accounting profession as a CAS with the express purpose of stimulating more holistic research efforts in accounting.

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“…On one hand, the chaotic behaviour highly dependent on initial conditions of the selforganizing system has quite unpredictable effects on the planning policy [2] . On the other hand, urban planning is questioned by the ability of the urban system to steer itself [3] .…”

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Optimization and Control of the Urban Spatial Dynamics

Semboloni¹

2004

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Urban planning involves the assignment of land use to each land cell. This process coexists and may conflict with the complex self-organized dynamics of the urban system, which should be constrained by the plan. The purpose of this study is the identification of a method for attaining the planned goals through the utilization of the self-organized dynamics, and the minimization of the constraints. The paper is organized in three steps. First, the urban plan is defined as a process of optimization. Second, the set of optimal solutions is compared with the configurations resulting by the self-organized dynamics. Third, a method for the convergence of the self-organized dynamics with the optimal configuration is proposed. In conclusion, the study shows that planning a complex system may be a hard task, while the control and the utilization of the self-organized dynamics help in the attainment of a total utility.

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Planning and Chaos Theory

Cited by 88 publications

References 16 publications

Convergence: Finding Collective Voice in Global Civil Society©

Convergence: Finding Collective Voice in Global Civil Society©

Public Accounting in the New Millenium: On the Edge of Chaos

Optimization and Control of the Urban Spatial Dynamics

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