Harnessing Complexity by Robert Axelrod
Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier
Explores how to work with complex adaptive systems in organizations and policy by leveraging simple local rules that generate large-scale patterns. Presents practical heuristics—such as parallel experimentation, recombination of successful elements, modular design, and feedback-driven adaptation—to navigate uncertainty, balance exploration and exploitation, and evolve strategies over time. Through clear concepts and examples, it offers a disciplined approach to learning, coordination, and performance improvement in dynamic, interdependent environments.
- Published
- 2000
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 190-210
- Original Language
- English
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