Complexity and Power Relations

Robert Warwick and Douglas Board
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Robert Warwick: City University London
Douglas Board: City University London

Chapter 5 in The Social Development of Leadership and Knowledge, 2013, pp 71-84 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Knowledge not only builds on what has gone before but is produced within specific social, economic and historical conditions. In this chapter we attend to some of the contributions to the library, specifically around complexity, which could only be made from the second half of the twentieth century onwards. At that time, initial and then increasingly rapid leaps in computing power made it possible to observe the evolution of systems (like the weather, or human or other biological populations) too complex to be explained by simple equations.

Keywords: Power Relation; Intended Effect; Organisational Life; Emotional Feeling; Newtonian Physic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137005519_6

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