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Performing Complexity: Building Foundations for the Practice of Complex Thinking

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Authors:
  1. Ana Teixeira de Melo

    1. Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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  • Presents a framework for the practice of complex thinking applied to the management of change in complex systems
  • Lays the groundwork for a cross-disciplinary investigation of the practice of complex thinking in various domains
  • Introduces an interdisciplinary approach to the development, selection, and evaluation of strategies and tools for complex thinking applied to change management in complex systems

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Complexity (BRIEFSCOMPLEXITY)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Thinking Complexity

    • Ana Teixeira de Melo
    Pages 1-11

  3. A Relational Framework for Complexity and Complex Thinking

    • Ana Teixeira de Melo
    Pages 13-32

  4. Complex Thinking as the Complexity of the Coupling Observer—World: Processes and Outcomes

    • Ana Teixeira de Melo
    Pages 33-48

  5. An Operational Framework for Complex Thinking

    • Ana Teixeira de Melo
    Pages 49-63

  6. Discussion: From Thinking to Performing Complexity

    • Ana Teixeira de Melo
    Pages 65-68

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 69-69
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About this book

In the face of growing challenges, we need modes of thinking that allow us to not only grasp complexity but also perform it. In this book, the author approaches complexity from the standpoint of a relational worldview. The author recasts complex thinking as a mode of coupling between an observer and the world. Further, she explores the process and outcome of that coupling, namely, meaningful information that may have transformative effects and impact the management of change in the ‘real world’. The author presents a new framework for operationalising complex thinking in a set of dimensions and properties through which it may be enacted. This framework may inform the development and coordination of new tools and strategies to support the practice and evaluation of complex thinking across a variety of domains. Intended for a wide interdisciplinary audience of academics, practitioners and policymakers alike, the book is an invitation to pursue inter- and transdisciplinary dialogues and collaborations. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Ana Teixeira de Melo

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Performing Complexity: Building Foundations for the Practice of Complex Thinking

  • Authors: Ana Teixeira de Melo

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Complexity

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46245-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46244-4Published: 29 April 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46245-1Published: 28 April 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2191-5326

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-5334

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 69

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Complex Systems, Complexity, Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory

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