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Direct linkvan Eijnatten, Frans M.; Putnik, Goran D. – Learning Organization, 2004
The European Chaos and Complexity in Organizations Network (ECCON) held its Third Annual Meeting in Guimaraes, Portugal, June 2003, at the very same spot where the First Business Excellence conference was organized. As an outcome of that meeting, this TLO special brings together six ECCON members around the theme of "Chaordic Systems Thinking"…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Learning, Organizations (Groups)
van Eijnatten, Frans M.; Putnik, Goran D. – Learning Organization, 2004
In order to set the stage for this special issue, the prime concepts are defined: i.e. "chaos," "complexity," "learning" (individual and organizational), "learning organization," and "chaordic enterprise". Also, several chaos-and-complexity-related definitions of learning and learning organizations are provided. Next, the guest editors' main…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Learning, Organizations (Groups), Business
van Eijnatten, Frans M. – Learning Organization, 2004
This contribution suggests a conceptual framework for using complexity to understand human interactions in learning organizations. The particular lens adopted for this purpose is that of the Chaos perspective. The following general concepts are described: discontinuous growth, attractors: their basins and landscapes, the chaordic properties of…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Models, Interaction, Learning
Putnik, Goran D.; van Eijnatten, Frans M. – Learning Organization, 2004
In this concluding paper the guest editors reflect on the contents of this special issue, and give some suggestions for future use of the CST framework. An interesting disclosure is that in chaos-and-complexity research the unit of measurement is not the individual human being, but the collective (i.e. dyad, team, or group), seen as a holon.…
Descriptors: Governance, Systems Approach, Cognitive Structures, Cooperative Learning
van Eijnatten, Frans M.; van Galen, Maarten C.; Fitzgerald, Laurie A. – Learning Organization, 2003
A decision to don the chaos lens, adopt dialogue as its primary mode of communication, and to recognize the power of the organizational mind has fundamentally and irreversibly changed the way a Dutch capital-equipment manufacturer operates in its rapidly complexifying global marketplace. Beginning in September 1999, the focus of an ever widening…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Business Administration, Organizational Change, Organizational Communication
