Complexity and Management - Two Interacting Sciences?

A Professional Development Workshop for the
Academy of Management Meeting

Saturday August 7, 1999, 10am - 6:00pm
Chicago

Hotel: Hyatt East
Floor: LL2
Room: Columbus A

Co-sponsored by the Technology & Innovation Management, Managerial & Organizational Cognition, Managerial Consultation, Social Issues in Management and Business Policy & Strategy divisions of the Academy and by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)

Panel 1: 10-11:30 am
Introduction to Complexity Theory  (With Emphasis on
Management Perspectives)

Introduction:  Ron Schultz* (Senn-Delaney)
Complex Systems In General:  Roger Lewin* and Birute Regine*
Formal Approaches:  Steven Phelan* (UTDallas)
Metaphoric Approaches:  Michael Lissack* (NECSI)

Panel 2:    11:50 - 1:20 pm
Managerial Research Insights From Complexity Science

Introduction:  Max Boisot* (Wharton)
Panelists: Kevin Dooley*(ASU) , Jan Rivkin* (HBS),
Raghu Garud* (NYU) and Peter Karnoe (CBS)*, Michael Cohen (UMich),
Carliss Baldwin (HBS), Dan Levinthal (Wharton)
Discussant: Irene Sanders (Colorado)*

Panel 3:  2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Practitioners Making Use of Complexity Science

Introduction: Helen Harte* (Northwest Hospital)
Panelists: Curt Lindberg* (VHA), Bill Fulkerson* (John Deere),
Ken Prokuski* (Applied Bio-Systems), Larry Prusak* (IBM),
Bruce Hansen* (CASA), John Seely Brown* (Xerox PARC)

Panel 4:  4:20 pm - 6:00 pm
Complexity and Management - Fad or Frontier?

Introduction:  Bill McKelvey (UCLA)* and Steve Maguire (McGill)*
Panelists:  Tom Petzinger* (WSJ), Eric Abrahamson (INSEAD)*,
Jeff Goldstein (Aldephi)*, Bill Frederick (UPitt)*

For more info please contact:  Michael Lissack