COMPLEXITY RESEARCH PROGRAMME
ICoSS PROJECT

Integration of Complex Social Systems Project

 Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences 
Research Council (EPSRC)

 PUBLICATIONS, SOFTWARE & PRESENTATIONS  

Angell I.O. & Ilharco F.M. 2004 ‘Solution is the Problem: Story of Transition & Opportunity’ pp 38-63 in The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology Eds Avgerou, Ciborra and Land, OUP

Angell I.O. 2005 ‘No More Leaning On Lamp-Posts’ Garrick House

Angell I.O. (forthcoming 2006) ‘(Meandering In) The Magic Of Money’ Garrick House

Amjad,U. (forthcoming 2005)  “A System of  Innovation? Integrated Water Resources Management Complemented with Coevolution, Examples from Palestinian and Israeli Joint Water Management” in World Futures Journal: Special Issue on Complexity and  Innovation

Garcia-Lorenzo L., Mitleton-Kelly E., Galliers R.D. (2003) 'Organisational Complexity: Organising Through the Generation and Sharing of Knowledge' in The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, Vol 3 Article MC03-0023-2003, Ed by Kalantzis M. and Cope B.

Garcia-Lorenzo L. and Nolas, S. M. (2004) “Plotting the future: Sensemaking processes in a post-merger situation” Proceedings of the 20^th EGOS Colloquium on The Organization as a Set of Dynamic Relationships July 2004 Ljubljana University, Slovenia http://web.archive.org/web/20030620105855/http://egosnet.org/

 Garcia-Lorenzo L. and Nolas, S. M. (2004) “The semantic dynamic of a post-merger situation: Linking organisational change, culture and narratives” in Cherry Combes, David Grant, Tom Keenoy, Cliff Oswick, Ida Sabelis, Marcel Veenswijk and Sierk Ybema (Eds) (2004) Organizational Discourse: Artefacts, Archetypes and Architexts. Proceedings of the 6th biennial conference held at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam on 28th - 30th July 2004 ISBN 1 900089 06 8 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pse/mancen/events/org_disc_6.htm

Garcia-Lorenzo L. and Nolas, S. M. (forthcoming-2005) “Post-merger concerns: Cultural integration in a multinational corporation” to appear in The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management Conference http://managementconference.com/Program/  

Kallinikos, J. 2005 'Order of Technology: Complexity and Control in a Connected World', Information & Organization xxx (2005), Elsevier

Land, F., Nolas, S.M. and Amjad, U. (2004) “Knowledge management: the dark side of KM” Conference proceedings of the 7^th International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (ETHICOMP) Vol. 2 April 2004 University of the Aegean Greece ISBN 960-7475-27-5 www.ccsr.cms.dmu.ac.uk/conferences/ethicomp2004   or http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/conferences/past_conf2002.html

Land,F., Nolas,S.M., Amjad,U. (forthcoming-2005). “Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management” in Schwarz, D.G., (Ed). Encyclopaedia of Knowledge Management Idea Group Inc.

Land, F., Amjad, U. and Nolas, S.M. (forthcoming-2005). “Introducing Knowledge Management as Both Desirable and Undesirable Processes”. Schwartz, D.G., (Ed). Encyclopaedia of Knowledge Management. Idea Group, Inc.

Mitleton-Kelly E. 2003 Ed. “Complex Systems & Evolutionary Perspectives of Organisations: The Application of Complexity Theory to Organisations”, selected papers on complexity by 14 international authors, Elsevier, ISBN 0-08-043957-8

Mitleton-Kelly E. 2003 “Ten Principles of Complexity & Enabling Infrastructures" in “Complex Systems & Evolutionary Perspectives of Organisations: The Application of Complexity Theory to Organisations”, Elsevier, ISBN 0-08-043957-8

Mitleton-Kelly E. 2003‘Complexity Research - Approaches and Methods: The LSE Complexity Group Integrated Methodology’ in Keskinen A, Aaltonen M, Mitleton-Kelly E "Organisational Complexity”. Foreword by Stuart Kauffman. Scientific Papers 1/2003, TUTU Publications, Finland Futures Research Centre, Helsinki, 2003

Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 'IT Legacy Systems: Enabling Environments that Reduce the Legacy Problem: A Complexity Perspective’ in Software Evolution, edited by N. H. Madhavji, M.M. Lehman, J.F. Ramil and D. Perry, Wiley, 2004 

Mitleton-Kelly E., Speh Birkenkrahe M. 2004 ‘Treasury Operations in A Multi-National Oil Company: Dialogue on the Methodology of Using Natural Experiments in Complex Evolving Systems’ in Complexity Theory and Management of Networks, Ed. Andriani, P & Passiante G, Imperial College Press, ISBN 1-86094-460-4.

Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004  ‘The Information Systems Professional as a Hermit: Of Plural Rationalities, Information Rejection and Complexity’ in No Great Breakthroughs Have Ever Been Achieved by Taking Things Seriously: A Festschrift for Michael Thompson; Marco Verweij and Steven Ney (eds), Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, Vol. 17, No. 1, December 2004

Mitleton-Kelly E. & Land F.  2005 ‘Complexity & Information Systems’ in the second edition of the Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management volume on Management Information Systems.

Mitleton-Kelly E., Puszczynski L.R. 2005 (in print) ‘An Integrated Methodology to Facilitate The Emergence of New Ways of Organising’ in Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, Vol. V, NECSI Knowledge Press

Mitleton-Kelly, E (forthcoming 2005) “A Complexity Approach to Co-creating an Innovative Environment” in World Futures Journal: Special Issue on Complexity and Innovation

Mitleton-Kelly, E (forthcoming 2005) ‘Co-Evolutionary Integration: A Complexity Perspective on Mergers & Acquisitions’ Proceedings of the 20th EGOS Colloquium July 2004 Ljubljana University, Slovenia, to be published in ECO (Emergence, Complexity and Organization) 2005 

Mitleton-Kelly E. (forthcoming 2005) ‘Agility as a Co-evolutionary Process’ in International Journal of Agile Systems and Management  (IJASM); Special Issue on: “Agile mechanisms and systems across different levels of organisational complexity” Ed. Tsagdis D.

Mitleton-Kelly E. 2005 ‘Designing a New Organisation: A Complexity Approach’ to be presented at the European Conference on Research Methods in Business and Management Studies, Paris, 21 & 22 April 2005 and published in the ECRM Journal.

Nolas, S.M. (2004) “Managing organizational knowledge and competence post-merger: practice, context and layers” Proceedings at the 5^th European Conference of Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities (OKLC) April 2004 University of Innsbruck Austria http://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/oklc2004/index.html

Nolas, S.M. (2004) “Learning the language of ‘action research’: reflections from a collaborative action research project in an organizational setting” Proceedings of the 20^th EGOS Colloquium on The Organization as a Set of Dynamic Relationships July 2004 Ljubljana University, Slovenia http://web.archive.org/web/20030620105855/http://egosnet.org/ 

Nolas, S. M. (forthcoming 2005) “Introducing different ways of  learning in a post-merger organization” in World Futures Journal:  Special Issue on Complexity Innovation

Zeeuw, G. de (2004), Self-organisation as quality control in inquiry. Kybernetes, 33-9/10, p. 1411-1418[Draft].

SOFTWARE

Bilge, U. Agent Based Model and Organisational Forms Simulator: visualises and simulates multiple informal networks within an HR Department, of an international organisation. It can be extended to select optimal team selections with given constraints, by testing out many combinations. It can also show the spread of ideas depending on the connectivity of agents. More details about ICoSS and ABM Demo on http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/complexity/icoss.htm

IN PREPARATION

Angell, I.O., Ilharco F.M. (expected 2006) ‘Dispositioning IT All: From the Propensity of Circumstance to a Tactical Grasp of Strategy’

Amjad, U. (expected in 2005) “Conceptualising Ambiguous Strategy: Coevolving Multilevel Strategies” Working Paper, LSE Complexity Research Programme

Amjad, U. (expected in 2005) “Institutions of Change Inside Organizations: Perceptions of a Formal Change Program in Post-merger Integration” Working Paper, LSE Complexity Research Programme

Bauer R., Valle R., Mitleton-Kelly E. (submitted) "Organizations, Knowledge, Complexity"

Iannacci F., Mitleton-Kelly E. (submitted) ‘Beyond Markets and Firms: The Emergence of Open Source Networks’

Mitleton-Kelly E. 2006 ‘The Theory & Application of Complexity Within An Organisational Context’ a volume based on research by the LSE Complexity Group.

Nolas, S.M. (submitted) “Navigating the labyrinth of change: supporting a post-merger organization through the practice of research” submitted to the Journal of Decision Systems: Special Issue on Case studies in Decision Making and Decision Support in a Complex World

Stadler C., Mitleton-Kelly E. (submitted) ‘Beethoven and Shell: How the (unintentional) application of the principles of complexity theory can lead to outstanding success.’ 

PRESENTATIONS

1. Amjad, U. 2003 “Coevolution of Multilevel Strategies: Consequences of lack of clarity during post-merger integration” presented at the New Approaches to Strategic Management Conference, Istituto Superiore Universitario di Formazione Interdisciplinare (ISUFI), August 2003, Ostuni, Italy     

2. Amjad, U. 2004 “Institutions of Change Within Organizations: Perceptions of a Formal Change Program Relating to Decision- making Processes” presented at the IFIP WG 8.3 Task Force Second Meeting on Case Studies of Decision Making and Decision Support April 2004 London, United Kingdom      http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/taskforce/  

3. Amjad, U. 2004 “Self-organizing Social Networks: Issues with Hierarchy, Power Dynamics in Decision Making” Working Paper, LSE Complexity Research Programme and presented at New England Complex Systems Institute International Conference on Complex Social Systems (NECSI Conference 2004, Boston, MA USA   http://necsi.org/events/iccs/iccscover.html 

4. Hopkinson K. 2003 ‘Landscape of the Mind Findings: Rolls-Royce Marine’ ICoSS Analysis Workshop with Rolls-Royce Marine, Derby, 6 & 7 Feb 2003 

5. Hopkinson K. 2004 "LoM corporate results , and management implications, especially for leading strategic change " Willis Workshop organised by Rolls-Royce for a network of companies, Derby, 7 Jan 2004 

6. Hopkinson K. 2004 "LoM corporate results for the SMT, and implications for corporate performance" Reflect-Back Workshop to the Modernisation Agency, NHS, London, 26 April 2004 

7. Hopkinson K. 2004 "Landscape of the Mind Findings: Implications For the Future Evolution of the Organisation" Reflect-Back Workshop to the Modernisation Agency, NHS 

8. Hopkinson K. 2004 ‘Landscape of the Mind ICoSS Findings: RRM and MA’ Seminar at LSE for senior business executives and academics, to disseminate ICoSS findings, 4 June 2004 

9. Hopkinson K. 2004 "Landscape of the Mind : a fresh way of unfurling human potential", LSE Complexity Seminar 4 July 2004.

10. Land, F., Nolas, S.M. and Amjad, U. 2004 “Knowledge management: the dark side of KM” presented at the University of Westminster for the Socio-technical Group March 2004 London United Kingdom 

11. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2001 ‘Shell Treasury Operations Pilot Project’ presentation of findings at workshop, Shell Centre, London 

12. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2001 ‘Businesses as Complex Adaptive Systems’ European Commission Workshop, Brussels 

13. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2001 ‘An Introduction to Complexity’ a seminar for senior business executives at LSE 

14. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2001 ‘ICOSS: Integration of Complex Social Systems, A Collaborative Research Project with the London School of Economics’ presented at INCOSE AA, 2001 

15. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2001 ‘Application of the Principles of Complexity to Social Systems’ seminar organised by NECSI (New England Complex Systems Institute), Boston, March 01 

16. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2001 ‘Knowledge Creation, Sharing and Complexity’ Athens, Oct 01 

17. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2001 ‘An Introduction to Complex Systems’ ICoSS Workshop, Oct. 01 for Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Centre, London 

18. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2001 ‘Systems Integration Initiative EPSRC: A Collaborative Proposal with Shell, BT and Rolls-Royce’ presented to research staff in the Department of Information Systems, LSE  

19. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2001 ‘An Introduction to Complexity’ a seminar at LSE for business executives and academics, 22 Nov 01

 20. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2001 ‘Is Complexity Science: Relevant to Management?’ a Seminar at Imperial College, London, 15 Nov 01 

21. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2001 ‘Dissipative Structures’ presented to LSE Complexity Network, LSE, Dec 01

 22. Mitleton-Kelly E., Speh Birkenkrahe M. 2001 ‘Jonah and the Whale? Treasury Operations In A Large Multinational As A Complex Evolving System’ Complexity Conference at Ostuni, Italy 

23. Mitleton-Kelly E.  2002 ‘Complexity Workshop’ a 2-day workshop at LSE to introduce complexity theory to business executives and academics, 6 & 7 March 02 

24. Mitleton-Kelly E.  2002 ‘Knowledge Creation, Sharing and Complexity’ University of Brighton PhD Student Seminar, Mar 02 

25. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2002 ‘ICOSS: Integration of Complex Social Systems, A Collaborative Project with the LSE’ Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, Spain, March 02 

26. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2002 ‘ICOSS: Integration of Complex Social Systems, An EPSRC-funded Research Project’ presented at an LSE Joint Departmental meeting, April 02 

27. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2002 ‘ICTs and the Nature and Relevance of Work’ at the Systems and Information Society Network meeting at Lincoln University, 1 May 02 

28. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2002 ‘ICOSS: Integration of Complex Social Systems, An EPSRC-funded Research Project’ presented at the ICoSS Advisors’ Meeting 13 May 02 

29. Mitleton-Kelly E., Garcia-Lorenzo L. 2002 ‘Connectivity in Organisations: Knowledge Processes and Virtual Teams’ presented at the ICoSS Inter-Organisational Meeting held at Norwich Union, York, 30 May 02 

30. Mitleton-Kelly E., Garcia-Lorenzo L. 2002 ‘Connectivity in Organisations: Knowledge Processes and Virtual Teams’ presented at Complexity Conference, Ostuni, Italy, May 2002 

31. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2002 ‘Different Ways of Organising: A complexity perspective’ at Nuffield Complexity Workshop on Understanding Change in Health Action Zones, NHS Complexity Conference, Exeter University, July 02 

32. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2002 ‘Different Ways of Organising: 3 Stories’ at International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston  

33. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2002 ‘Rolls-Royce Marine, ALD Project Launch, ICoSS Project’ workshop organised by Rolls-Royce, to launch project with RR Accelerated Leadership Development team, London, 30 Sept 02 

34. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2002 ‘Co-Evolving Organisations’ presented to Mondragon Cooperative Corporation senior executives, Bilbao, Spain, Oct 02 

35. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2002 ‘ICoSS Methodology: A Collaborative Research Project with the London School of Economics’ presented to Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, at Bilbao, Spain, Oct 02 

36. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2002 ‘Co-Evolving Organisations: ICoSS & FP6’  Exystence European Complex Systems Network of Excellence Conference, Turin, Nov 2002 

37. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2002 ‘Co-Evolving Organisations within a Knowledge Ecology’ presented to European researchers, at LSE, Dec 02

38. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2003 ‘An Introduction to Complexity Thinking’ ICoSS Analysis Workshop with Rolls-Royce Marine, Derby, 6 & 7 Feb 2003

39. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2003 ‘Different Ways of Organising: A complexity perspective’ Inclusive Action Group 2 Workshop, 10 Feb. 03, London 

40. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2003 ‘Complexity Tools in Evaluating Policy Options’ Evaluating Policy Options Workshop, European Commission, Brussels, April 03 

41. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2003‘The Co-Creation of Enabling Environments’ presented to the Dept of Innovation & Design, Open University, April 03 

42. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2003 ‘Designing organisations or enabling the emergence of organisational forms?’ Design Research Seminar, Open University, 7 May 03 

43. Mitleton-Kelly E. & Stock  T. 2003‘Rolls-Royce Marine: A discussion of the complexity issues’ at Ethics, Complexity & Organisations conference, LSE, Sept 03 

44. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2003 ‘ICoSS Methodology and Rolls-Royce Marine Case Study:  Enabling Inter-Organizational Network Development [Mergers & Acquisitions]’ Exystence European Network of Excellence Seminar, Bilbao, Spain, Oct 03 

45. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘Co-Evolutionary Sustainability: Renewal and Regeneration of Communities and Organizations’ Society for Organisational Learning, 4^th Research Greenhouse, Boston, Jan 04 

46. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘RRM/ALD/LSE Project ICoSS’ Willis Workshop organised by Rolls-Royce for a network of companies, Derby, 7 Jan 04 

47. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘Complexity Approach to Organisations’ seminar at Newport University, Feb 04 

48. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘Co-Evolve: As A Complement to SoL Projects’ workshop organised by the Society for Organisational Learning, Paris 

49. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘Communities of Practice: A Complexity Perspective’ presented to a group of organisations at LSE, April 2004 

50. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘Knowledge Generation & Sharing & Plural Rationalities’ European Commission Workshop, Florence, Apr 04  

51. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘ICoSS Project MA Interview Finding: Some Key Issues’ Reflect-Back Workshop to the Modernisation Agency, NHS, London, 26 Apr 04 

52. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘ICoSS Integrated Methodology to Facilitate The Emergence of New Ways of Organising’ Reading ECRM Conference on Methods 29 & 30 Apr 04 

53. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004‘An Integrated Methodology to Facilitate The Emergence of New Ways of Organising’ Stories’ at International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston, May 2004 

54. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘An Integrated Methodology to Facilitate the Emergence of New Ways of Organising: RRM & MA’ Seminar at LSE for senior business executives and academics, to disseminate ICoSS findings, 4 June 04 

55. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘Complexity, Learning & Sustainability’ European Sustainability Group, Budapest, June 2004  

56. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘Co-Evolutionary Integration: A Complexity Perspective on Mergers & Acquisitions’ Presented at 20th EGOS Colloquium July 2004 Ljubljana University, Slovenia 

57. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘Complexity: Theory and an Integrated Methodology’ presented to the BIOS Research Group, LSE, Aug 04 

58. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘The Theory and Application of Complexity in Rolls-Royce Marine and The Modernisation Agency, NHS’ Keynote speech at 4^th Complexity Conference on Health and Social Care, Exeter University, Sept 04 

59. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘Co-Evolutionary Integration: The Co-creation of a New Organisational Form Following a Merger or Acquisition’ NEXSUS Conference on Organisations, Innovation and Complexity: New Perspectives on the Knowledge  Economy, University of Manchester, 9-10 September 2004 

60. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘MA Complexity Thinking Workshop’ a workshop for clinicians and managers in the Modernisation Agency, NHS, at LSE, 20 Oct 04 

61. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘The Theory and Application of Complexity in Rolls-Royce Marine and The Modernisation Agency, NHS’ Exystence European Network of Excellence Seminar, Helsinki, Nov 04 

62. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2005 ‘Dialogue on Complexity & Design’ presented to the EPSRC/HBRC Cluster on Design Complexity, UCL, January 2005  

63. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2005 ‘GSK Complexity Seminars’ a series of six seminars with the senior IT team, UK, GlaxoSmithKline between March-July 2005 

64. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2005 ‘Introduction to Complexity Theory’ at the Community & Urban Renewal Workshop, LSE, 8 March 2005 

65. Mitleton-Kelly E. 2005 ‘ICoSS: An Integrated Methodology to Facilitate The Emergence of New Ways of Organising’ Said Business School, Oxford University,15 March 2005 

66. Nolas, S.M. 2003 “Creativity, self-organization and emergence: the case of social science research”, presented at the Complexity Ethics and Creativity conference; 17-September 2003; London School of Economics United Kingdom 
http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/complexity/Conference/information.htm

67. Nolas, S.M. 2004 “The place of action in management education: reflections from research in an organizational setting” to be presented at the IFIP WG 8.3 Task Force Second Meeting on Case Studies of Decision Making and Decision Support April 2004 London, United Kingdom http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/taskforce/ 

Revised: August 14, 2006 .