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Author(s): Greg Hearn , David Rooney , Thomas Mandeville

Publication date (Print): June 2003

Journal: Prometheus

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Keywords: Complexity Theory, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Systems, Public Policy, Self-organisation, Self-referencing, Self-transformation

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Title: Prometheus

Subtitle: Critical Studies in Innovation

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ISSN (Print): 0810-9028

ISSN (Electronic): 1470-1030

Publication date (Print): June 2003

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Pages: 231-245

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Alien P. M.. 1997. . 'Modelling the co-evolution of communications and socioeconomic structure'. . Prometheus . , Vol. 15((1)) April;: 83––100. .

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[1] Hearn G., Mandeville T. and Anthony D.. 1998. . The Communication Superhighway: Social and Economic Change in the Digital Age . , Sydney : : Alien & Unwin. .

[2] Kiel L. D.. 1994. . Managing Chaos and Complexity in Government . , San Francisco : : Jossey-Bass. .

[3] Ninan A. and Hearn G.. 1998. . 'Self-referencing versus self-organising communication: a case study of strategic planning'. . The Australian Journal of Communication . , Vol. 25((3)): 113––9. .

[4] Sardar Z. and Ravetz J. R.. 1994. . 'Complexity: fad or future?'. . Futures, Special Issue . , Vol. 26((6)): 563––696. .

[6] Stacey R.. 1991. . The Chaos Frontier Creative Strategic Control for Business . , Oxford : : Butterworth Heinemann. .

[7] Paquet G.. 1998. . 'Evolutionary cognitive economies'. . Information Economies and Policy . , Vol. I((10)): 343––4. .

[9] Alien P. M.. 2000. . 'Knowledge, ignorance and learning'. . Emergence . , Vol. 2((4)): 78––103. .

[10] Goodwill B.. 1997. . How the Leopard Changed its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity . , London : : Phoenix. .

[11] Merali Y. and Snowden D. J.. 2000. . Special Issue on Complexity and Knowledge Management. . Emergence . , Vol. 2((4)): 5––164. .

[12] Ormerod P.. 1994. . The Death of Economics . , London : : Faber and Faber. .

[14] Mihata K.. 1997. . “'The persistence of "emergence" '. ”. In Chaos, Complexity and Sociology . , Edited by: Eve R. A., Horsfall S. and Lee M. L.. p. 33 Thousand Oaks , CA : : Sage. .

[15] Boisot M. and Cohen J.. 2000. . 'Shall I compare thee to … an organization?'. . Emergence . , Vol. 2((4)): 113––5. .

[16] Hodgson G. M.. 2000. . 'The concept of emergence in social science: its history and importance'. . Emergence . , Vol. 2((4)): 65––77. .

[17] Louçâ F.. 1997. . Turbulence in Economies: An Evolutionary Appraisal of Cycles Complexity in Historical Processes . , Cheltenham , , UK: : Edward Elgar. .

[18] Chia R.. 1996. . 'The problem of reflexivity in organizational research: towards a postmodern science of organization'. . Organization . , Vol. 3((1)): 31––59. .

[19] Smith K.. 1995. . 'Interactions in knowledge systems: foundations, policy implications and empirical methods'. . OECD S77 Review . , Vol. 16:: 72

[20] Rooney D., Hearn G., Mandeville T. and Joseph R.. 2003. . Public Policy and the Knowledge Economy: Foundations and Frameworks . , London : : Edward Elgar. .

[21] Howkins J.. 2001. . The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas . , London : : Alien Lane. .

[22] Potts J.. 2000. . The New Evolutionary Microeconomics: Complexity, Competence and Adaptive Behaviour . , Cheltenham , , UK: : Edward Elgar. .

[23] Sveiby K. E.. 1997. . The New Organisational Wealth . , San Francisco : : Berrett-Koehler. .

[24] Alien P. M.. 1992. . 'Evolutionary theory, policy making and planning'. . Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research . , Vol. 51:: 644––57. .

[25] Polanyi M.. 1967. . The Tacit Dimension . , Garden City , NY : : Doubleday. .

[26] Graham P. and Hearn G.. 2000. . Reality's construction of the social- language vs biology vs logistics in human affairs . , Brisbane : : Queensland University of Technology. .

[27] Mitroff I. and Bennis W.. 1989. . The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What it is Doing to our Lives . , New York : : Birch Lane Press. .

[28] Hearn G. and Ninan A.. 1998. . 'Self-referencing versus self-organising communication: a case study of strategic planning'. . The Australian Journal of Communication . , Vol. 25((3)): 113––9. .

[29] Laszlo E.. 1992. . 'Information technology and social change: an evolutionary systems analysis'. . Behavioral Science . , Vol. 37:: 240

[30] Castells M.. 1996. . The Rise of the Network Society . , Cambridge , MA : : Blackwell Publishers. .

[31] Mulgan G. J.. 1997. . Connexity: How to Live in a Connected World . , p. 21 London : : Chatto and Windus. .

[32] Friedman T. L.. 1999. . The Lexus and the OKve Tree: Understanding dobalisation . , New York : : Random House. .

[33] Shapiro C. and Varian H.. 1999. . Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy . , Boston : : Harvard Business School Press. .

[34] Machlup F.. 1962. . The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States . , Princeton : : Princeton University Press. .

[35] Campbell D.. 1974. . “'Evolutionary epistemology'. ”. In Language, Development and Culture . , Edited by: Campbell D.. p. 421 New York : : Wiley and Sons. .

[37] Graham P.. 2000. . 'Hypercapitalism: a political economy of informational idealism'. . New Media and Society . , Vol. 2:: 131––56. .

[38] Cohen B.. 1997. . The Edge of Chaos-Financial Booms, Bubbles, Crashes and Chaos . , Chichester : : Wiley. .

[39] Stacey R. D.. 2001. . Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation . , London : : Routledge. .

[40] Rooney D. and Hearn G.. 1999. . 'The zone of entanglement: change, non-change and the new managerial ideology of ephemera'. . Foresight . , Vol. 1((2)): 141––51. .

[41] Morgan G.. 1997. . Images of Organization . , p. 251––300. . London : : Sage. .

[42] Alien P. M.. 1994. . 'Coherence, chaos and evolution in the social context'. . Futures . , Vol. 26((6)): 583––97. .

[43] Alien P. M.. 1997. . 'Modelling the co-evolution of communications and socioeconomic structure'. . Prometheus . , Vol. 15((1)) April;: 83––100. .

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