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Simplexity Thinking

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Introduction

Rapidly accelerating societal and economic change is posing new, more complex challenges for management researchers seeking to improve organizations. Many organizations that prospered during more stable times – times that rewarded routinized efficiency – now find themselves poorly adapted to today’s new economic and social realities. In every direction, traditional structures are abruptly being reshaped or falling down. Once successful companies are finding that their sure-hit formulas no longer work. Long revered icons of organizational excellence have been humbled, and even bailed out of bankruptcy and imminent demise by government intervention. Individuals, families, and entire communities are finding the world shifting beneath their feet as traditional markets, industries, and sources of employment disappear under the impact of new information technologies, global competition, lack of regulation of financial institutions, uncertainty about global warming, transitioning...

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  1. Michael G. DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Dr. Min Basadur

  2. College of Business, Krauss Hall 215, Concordia University Chicago, 7400 Augusta St., River Forest, IL, 60305, USA

    Tim Basadur

  3. Michael G. DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, 18 McCrimmon Dr., Brampton, ON, Canada

    Gordana Licina

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Basadur, M., Basadur, T., Licina, G. (2013). Simplexity Thinking. In: Carayannis, E.G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3858-8_427

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