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Promoting organisational emergence in business social networks

Authors:
Matei Dobrescu

Keywords: social networks, self–organization, complex adaptive systems, organisational emergence, social autopoiesis

Abstract:
In this paper complex adaptive systems theory (CAS) and social autopoiesis have been interpreted with the aim to identify factors realising emergent properties in organisations structured as social networks. Understanding the complex dynamics of such communities requires a view of their infrastructure as a network of interacting agents involving both goals and constraints. We analyze the network structure, showing that it defines a complex weighted network with scaling laws at different levels. We also present a simple model of network growth involving non-local rules.

Pages: 150 to 155

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: March 20, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-124-3

Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

Dates: from March 20, 2011 to March 25, 2011