Managing complexity in social systems : leverage points for policy and strategy / by Christoph E. Mandl.
Mandl, Christoph E., author.
2019
HD28-70
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Title Managing complexity in social systems : leverage points for policy and strategy / by Christoph E. Mandl.
Author Mandl, Christoph E., author.
ISBN 9783030016456
3030016455
9783030016432
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01645-6.
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XIII, 222 pages 221 illustrations) : online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-01645-6. doi
Call Number HD28-70
Dewey Decimal Classification 658.4092
Summary Why do policies and strategies often fail, and what can be done about it? How can complexity be managed in cases where it cannot be reduced? The answers to these questions are anything but trivial, and can only be found by combining insights from complexity science, system dynamics, system theory and systems thinking. Rooted in the seminal works of Gregory Bateson, Jay Forrester, Donella Meadows, Peter Senge, W. Brian Arthur, John Sterman and Thomas Schelling, this book bridges the gap between rigorous science and real-life experience to explore the potential and limitations of leverage points in implementing policies and strategies. It also presents diagnostic tools to help recognize system archetypes, as well as the powerful language of stock and flow diagrams, which allows us to think in terms of circular causality. These tools are subsequently employed to thoroughly analyze particularly thorny problems such as global climate change, the tragedy of the commons, path dependence, diffusion of innovations, and exponential growth of inequality.
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Prelude: Scientific Journey into a Strange Paradigm
Part I From Logic to Circular Causality
Chapter 1 Perceiving Events, Patterns, and Structure
Chapter 2 Homeostasis, Complexity, Emergence and Purposeful Behavior
Chapter 3 Decision and Forecast: The Cassandra Paradox
Part II Describing and Understanding Dynamics of Social Systems
Chapter 4 Language, Syntax and Semantics for Describing Dynamics of Systems
Confusing Stocks with Flows: The Carbon Credit Fallacy
Chapter 6 Leverage Points as Technology to Change Problematic Dynamics
Chapter 7 Sensitivity and Uncertainty: Locust Plagues and Price Dynamics of Commodities
Chapter 8 Generic Structures, Systems Archetypes and Theories
Part III Managing Intra-Organizational Phenomena
Chapter 9 Shifting the Burden: When Organizations Become Addicted
Chapter 10 Accidental Adversaries: The Enigma of Sustained Cooperation
Chapter 11 Adaptation: Drifting Goals, Invisible Hand and Breastfeeding
Chapter 12 Limits to Growth: Network Effect and Attractiveness Principle
Chapter 13 Growth and Underinvestment: Aligning Performance and Resources
Part IV Managing Trans-Organizational Phenomena
Chapter 14 Policy Resistance: Rebound Effect and Other Paradoxes
Chapter 15 Escalation: The Strength of Fear
Chapter 16 Diffusion of Innovations: The Much Sought After Tipping Point
Chapter 17 Market for Lemons: When Dishonesty Prevails
Chapter 18 The Commons: A Tragedy?
Chapter 19 Path Dependence: Segregation, Increasing Returns, Success to the Successful
Coda: Managing Complexity
The Sense of Possibility.

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