ISCE Research
The Instititute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (ISCE) originally grew out of the New England Complex Systems Institute's Organizational-Related Programmes department in mid-1999. The main aim of ISCE is to facilitate the conversation between academics and practitioners regarding the implications of complexity thinking for the management of organizations. To support this aim ISCE organizes a variety of events (through ISCE Events) and also publishes (through ISCE Publishing) the international interdisciplinary journal, Emergence: Complexity and Organizations (formerly known as Emergence), or simply, E:CO.

ISCE Research is primarily concerned with co-ordinating the research activities of the ISCE fellows to ensure that each fellow is aware of each other fellow's research to facilitate cross-discplinary collaboration and synthesis. We also maintain a list of the research publications that emerge from this group of complexity researchers. ISCE Research also provides a legitimate academic home for freelance researchers who would like to apply for government research grants concerning the application of complexity thinking. ISCE Research also maintains a small inhouse research capability which is concerned with a range of different research issues including: the philosophical implications of complexity, the role of language in understanding organizations, coherence in organizations, the simplification of the irreducible, complexity-based tools for policy analysis.

ISCE Research is led by Dr. Michael Lissack (ISCE Director) and Dr. Kurt Richardson (Associate Director).