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Complexity theory and organizations
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<p>Complexity theory and organizations, also called complexity strategy or complex adaptive organizations, is the use of the study of <a href="/facts/Complex_systems/eGG3B1nn">complexity systems</a> in the field of <a href="/facts/Strategic_management/b4kFnS66">strategic management</a> and <a href="/facts/Organizational_studies/7ucz9TRo">organizational studies</a>. It draws from research in the natural sciences that examines uncertainty and <a href="/facts/Non-linearity/4aYItALC">non-linearity</a>. Complexity theory emphasizes interactions and the accompanying <a href="/facts/Feedback/XnuWH3zp">feedback</a> loops that constantly change systems. While it proposes that systems are <a href="/facts/Predictability/FNSpNGQF">unpredictable</a>, they are also constrained by order-generating rules.: 74 </p><p>Complexity theory has been used in the fields of <a href="/facts/Strategic_management/b4kFnS66">strategic management</a> and <a href="/facts/Organizational_studies/7ucz9TRo">organizational studies</a>. Application areas include understanding how <a href="/facts/Organizations/CR83f1Rn">organizations</a> or firms adapt to their environments and how they cope with conditions of uncertainty. Organizations have complex structures in that they are <a href="/facts/Dynamic_network_analysis/vW3scuva">dynamic networks</a> of interactions, and their relationships are not aggregations of the individual static entities. They are adaptive; in that, the individual and <a href="/facts/Collective_behavior/aVy8omc7">collective behavior</a> mutate and <a href="/facts/Self-organizing/NSGBKxUa">self-organize</a> corresponding to a change-initiating micro-event or collection of events. </p>