Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2014-2015)
Time: Friday December 5, 14h-16h Place: *room D.2.15* ------------------------------ Linking Complexity Science and Strategic Management Petter Braathen <https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?firstName=Petter&lastName=Braathen&orig=SEO_SN&trk=SEO_SN&domainCountryName=&csrfToken=ajax%3A1724863856964209478> (ECCO) Abstract: Strategic management theory describes how firms obtain and maintain competitive advantage. This may also be seen as system-environment fitness between a firm and its market. Recent development has lead to focus on competence and capabilities as the main strategic resources of an organization. One of the main questions has been to what degree the competitive position is a function of management’s control and rational strategic choice, or founded in an evolutionary process that is unpredictable and coincidental. I will base an analysis of organizational capabilities on action ontology and on complex systems theory. I will present how capabilities can be seen in the light of evolutionary theory as structural and functional complexification. I will discuss operational capabilities as super-systems and dynamic capabilities as meta-systems transitions. I will go on to present a macro analysis of general meta-system transitions in governance of organizations. Finally, I will discuss organization-specific variations of dynamic capabilities and relate them to the role of management in organizations. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *Dec. 12 * *CANCELLED!* no seminar *Dec. 19 * Jeanne Dietsch *Interactions of emotion, rationality, faith and institutions on the outcomes of trust* See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers <http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
