www.synapse9.com/ref/GersickCJG1991RevolutionaryChangeTheories.pdf (500k) Have any of you heard of the "Academy of Management Review" or Connie JG Gersick?
She might have called it 'emergence' I think, but seems to have done a great job of threading together six different theories of change between complex system equilibriums, punctuated by disequilibrium, which she calls "revolutionary change". The familiar ones are the models offered by TS Kuhn, SJ Gould, and I Prigogine. She seems to come to the conclusion, yes, there are discontinuities. My view has developed as being that, yes, there are discontinuities, but often observably in the mode of explanation used and not the physical process. Does anyone else also see the need to have gaps between modes of explanation for complex system features as a important reason for using the word 'complex' to describe them? Phil Henshaw ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
