Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly: Publications

PAPERS & BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. 1997: 'Organisation as Co-Evolving Complex Adaptive Systems', British Academy of Management Conference, London 8-10 September 1997  - Won BAM award for innovation and excellence.

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. and Papaefthimiou MC. 2000: 'Co-Evolution and an Enabling Infrastructure: A Solution to Legacy?' in 'Systems Engineering for Business Process Change' Edited by Henderson P., Springer-Verlag, ISBN-1-85233-222-0

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. 2000: 'Complexity: Partial Support for BPR'  in 'Systems Engineering for Business Process Change' Edited by Henderson P., Springer-Verlag, ISBN-1-85233-222-0

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. and Papaefthimiou MC. 2001 'Co-Evolution of Diverse Elements Interacting within a Social Ecosystem' in 'Systems Engineering for Business Process Change' Vol. 2, Edited by Henderson P., Springer-Verlag, Oct. 2001, ISBN 1-85233-399-5 

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. 2003 “Ten Principles of Complexity & Enabling Infrastructures" in “Complex Systems & Evolutionary Perspectives of Organisations: The Application of Complexity Theory to Organisations”, Ed by Mitleton-Kelly, Elsevier, ISBN 0-08-043957-8

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. 2003‘Complexity Research - Approaches and Methods: The LSE Complexity Group Integrated Methodology’ in Keskinen A, Aaltonen M, Mitleton-Kelly E "Organisational Complexity”. Foreword by Stuart Kauffman. Scientific Papers 1/2003, TUTU Publications, Finland Futures Research Centre, Helsinki, 2003

  • Garcia-Lorenzo L., Mitleton-Kelly E., Galliers R.D. 2003 'Organisational Complexity: Organising Through the Generation and Sharing of Knowledge' in The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, Vol 3 Article MC03-0023-2003, Ed by Kalantzis M. and Cope B.

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 “An Integrated Methodology to Facilitate The Emergence of New Ways of Organising” Conference Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (ECRM) April 2004.

  • Mitleton-Kelly E., Speh Birkenkrahe M. 2004 ‘Treasury Operations in A Multi-National Oil Company: Dialogue on the Methodology of Using Natural Experiments in Complex Evolving Systems’ in Complexity Theory and Management of Networks, Ed. Andriani, P & Passiante G, Imperial College Press, ISBN 1-86094-460-4.

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004 ‘Co-Evolutionary Integration: A Complexity Perspective on Mergers & Acquisitions’ Presented at 20th EGOS Colloquium July 2004 Ljubljana University, Slovenia and published in ‘Complexity as a Sensemaking Framework’, Ed. Aaltonen M., Finland Futures Research Centre Publications, 4/2005

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. 2004  ‘The Information Systems Professional as a Hermit: Of Plural Rationalities, Information Rejection and Complexity’ in No Great Breakthroughs Have Ever Been Achieved by Taking Things Seriously: A Festschrift for Michael Thompson; Marco Verweij and Steven Ney (eds), Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, Vol. 17, No. 1, December 2004

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. & Land F. 2005 ‘Complexity & Information Systems’ in the second edition of the Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management volume on Management Information Systems.

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. 2006 A Complexity Approach to Co-creating an Innovative Environment’ in World Futures Journal Special Issue, Volume 62, Number 3

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. 2006 'IT Legacy Systems: Enabling Environments that Reduce the Legacy Problem: A Complexity Perspective’ in Software Evolution, edited by N. H. Madhavji, M.M. Lehman, J.F. Ramil and D. Perry, Wiley

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. & Puszczynski LR 2006 “An Integrated Methodology to Facilitate The Emergence of New Ways of Organising” in Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, Vol. V,  Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Complex Systems, eds Y. Bar-Yam and A. Minai, Springer 2006, http://necsi.org/events/iccs/2004proceedings.html, paper #659

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. 2006 “Co-evolutionary Integration: The Co-Creation of a New Organizational Form Following a Merger and Acquisition” in Emergence: Complexity & Organization Vol 8 Issue 2, (E:CO 8.2); also published in 'Complexity as a Sensemaking Framework', pp39-62, Ed Aaltonen M., Barth T, Casti JL, Mitleton-Kelly E., Sanders TI, Finland Futures Research Centre Publications 4/2005, http://www.tukkk.fi/tutu and presented at NEXSUS Conference on Organisations, Innovation and Complexity: New Perspectives on the Knowledge Economy 9-10 September 2004, University of Manchester

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. 2007, The Emergence of Final Cause’ in Aaltonen, M. The Third Lens. Multi-ontology Sense-making and Strategic Decision-making. Ashgate Publishing Limited. Aldershot, ISBN 0 7546 4798 6

Book Chapters in Preparation

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. & Ramalingam B. 2010 ‘Organisational Learning and Complexity Science :Exploring the Joint Potential’, to be published in 2010 in the SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management, the aim is to be the definitive reference source for understanding implications of complexity science for management research and practice.

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BOOKS

  • Mitleton-Kelly E. 2003 Ed., Complex Systems & Evolutionary Perspectives of Organisations: The Application of Complexity Theory to Organisations, selected papers on complexity by 14 international authors, Elsevier, ISBN 0-08-043957-8

  • Keskinen A, Aaltonen M, Mitleton-Kelly E, 2003, Eds. Organisational Complexity, Scientific Papers 1/2003, TUTU Publications, Finland Futures Research Centre, Helsinki, 2003

  • Aaltonen M., Barth T, Casti JL, Mitleton-Kelly E., Sanders TI, 2005, Eds. Complexity as a Sensemaking Framework, Finland Futures Research Centre Publications 4/2005, http://www.tukkk.fi/tutu

  • Mitleton-Kelly et al, 2010 Joint Author of ‘Learning from Complexity: Enabling Governance Frameworks’, to be published by Edward Elgar.

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