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"Simple Rules" For Improving Corporate Iq: Basic Lessons From Complexity Science

In: Complexity Theory And The Management Of Networks

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  • BILL MCKELVEY

    (The Anderson School at UCLA, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, USA)

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Human and social capital developments are discussed in the context of increasing corporate IQ, defined as distributed intelligence (DI) in firms, as the basis of improved economic rent generation. A review of complexity science shows that adaptive tension dynamics (energy-differentials) may be used to foster adaptively efficacious DI appreciation. The optimal region for rapidly improving adaptive fitness occurs in the region in which emergent self-organization occurs—between the 1st and 2nd critical values of adaptive tension. Below the 1st value there is little change; above the 2nd value the system becomes chaotic and dysfunctional. Twelve "simple rules" drawn from complexity science are defined. These are available to rent-seeking CEOs wishing to create improved corporate IQ.

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  • Bill Mckelvey, 2004. ""Simple Rules" For Improving Corporate Iq: Basic Lessons From Complexity Science," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Pierpaolo Andriani & Giuseppina Passiante (ed.), Complexity Theory And The Management Of Networks, chapter 4, pages 39-52, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781860947339_0004
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    Keywords

    Networks; Complexity Theory; Management of Networks; Distributed Systems; Strategy;
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    • L16 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Industrial Structure

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