Socio-Technical Systems
Background Information: Reference | Major Academic Journals | Research Institutes & Associations
Background Information: Reference
Modeling Complex Behaviors Resulting from Simple Rules
- 302.14 Ax22e (Main Stacks, Oak Street)
Axelrod, R. The Evolution of Cooperation. 1984 - 300 EP85G (SSHEL Stacks, online)
Axtell, R.A. and Epstein, J. Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up. 2006 - 300.113 Ep855g (Main Stacks, SSHEL Stacks, online)
Epstein, J. Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling. 2006 - 515.39 C332c (Grainger, online)
Massimo, C., Cecconi,F. and Vulpiani, A. Chaos: From Simple Models to Complex Systems. 2010 - 301.15 SCH261M (SSHEL Stacks, HPNL, Oak Street)
Schelling, T. C. Micromotives and Macrobehavior. 1978 - 658.3008 P145d (HPNL, Oak Street)
Scott , P. The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies. 2007
Complexity
- 003.7 H719H (Main Stacks)
Holland, J. H. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity. 1995 - 577 K162O (Funk ACES, Grainger, Main Stacks)
Kaufmann, S. The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution. 1993 - Q175.32.C65 M58 2009 (Main Stacks)
Mitchell, M. Complexity: A Guided Tour. 2009 - 300.15118 M615c (Main Stacks, online)
Page, E. S. Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life. 2007 - Page, Scott. Diversity and Complexity. 2011
- 530.412 St341s (Grainger, online)
Stein, D. Spin Glasses and Complexity. 2013 - 591.51 W69s (Main Stacks, Oak Street)
Wilson, E. O. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. 1975
Managing Complex Systems
- 327.73 Al56e1999 (Math Library)
Allison, G. T. and Zelikow, P. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. 1999 - 519.542 B515r (Math Library, online)
Binmore, K. Rational Decisions. 2009 - 658.16 C692h (Main Stacks)
Collins, J. How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give in. 2009. - 338.927 Es654c (Funk ACES)
Espinosa, A. A Complexity Approach to Sustainability: Theory and Application. 2011 - 617.09 G248c 2002 (Oak Street)
Gawande, A. Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science. 2002 - Helbing, D. Managing Complexity : Insights, Concepts, Applications. 2008
- 658.403 K627S (Main Stacks)
Klein, G. A. Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions. 1998 - 658.403 M331P (Main Stacks)
March, J. G. and C. Heath. A Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen. 1994. - 658.4 Sp312c (Main Stacks, online)
Spear, J.S. Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and Win. 2009
Design
- 620.004201 D993E (Grainger)
Dym, C. L. Engineering Design: A Synthesis of Views. 1994 - 601 N782l (Main Stacks)
Norman, E. D. Living with Complexity. 2011 - 153.4 SCH65R (Funk ACES, Main Stacks, Oak Street)
Schön, D. A. The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. 1983 - 629.1309 V744W (Grainger, Main Stacks)
Vincenti, W. G. What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History. 1990
Economics and Technological Progress
- HC79.I55 B796 2014 (Main Stacks)
Brynjolfsson,E. and McAfee, A. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. 2014 - 304.64 F687e (Main Stacks)
Fogel, R. W. The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World. 2004 - 338.064 M729g (HPNL, online)
Mokyr, J. The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. 2002 - 338.064 H3649t (Main Stacks)
Torsten, H. Technological Change and Network Effects in Growth Regimes: Exploring the Microfoundations of Economic Growth. 2013
Ethics / Values
- T176 .H84 1998 (Main Stacks)
Hughes, T. P. Rescuing Prometheus. 1998 - 629.474 M661d (Grainger, online)
Mindell, D. A. Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight. 2008 - CB161 .R38 2003 (Oak Street)
Rees, M. Our Final Hour: A Scientist’s Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind’s Future in this Century – On Earth and Beyond. 2003 - 174 Se54o (Law Library, Main Stacks)
Sen, A. K. On Ethics and Economics. 1987 - 179.7 SI64R (Main Stacks)
Singer, P. Rethinking Life & Death: The Collapse of our Traditional Ethics. 1995
Leadership
- 352.236 N984p (Main Stacks, online)
Nye, J. S. The Powers to Lead. 2008
Lean Concepts
- 338.47629222 W84M (Grainger, Main Stacks)
Womack, J. P., D. T. Jones, et al. The Machine that Changed the World. 1990
Management Thinking
- 658 D84M (Main Stacks, Oak Street, online)
Drucker, P. F. Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-Taking Decisions. 1964 - Freeman, R. E. Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach. 1984
- HD58.8 .H362 1989 (Oak Street)
Handy, C. B. The Age of Unreason. 1989 - 658.4092 W729c (Main Stacks, online)
Ingo, W. Contemporary Leadership Theories: Enhancing the Understanding of the Complexity, Subjectivity and Dynamic of Leadership. 2010 - 658 M5833W (Main Stacks)
Micklethwait, J. and A. Wooldridge. The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus. 1996 - Mowles, C. Rethinking Management: Radical Insights from Complexity Sciences. 2012
- 658.4092 C7385 (Main Stacks, online)
Uhl-Bien M. Complexity Leadership. 2008.
Modes of Thought
- 153.9 G173f (Main Stacks)
Gardner, H. Five Minds for the Future. 2006 - 121 W692c (Main Stacks)
Wilson, E. O. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. 1998
The Nature of Research and Science
- 530 F438c1994 (Grainger)
Feynman, R. P. The Character of Physical Law. 1994 - 612.82 C456w (HPNL)
Michael, C. World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines and the Internet. 2011 - QP360 .K325 2014 (Main Stacks)
Michio, K. The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind. 2014 - 501 P757P1964 (SSHEL Stacks, Main Stacks, Oak Street)
Polanyi, M. Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. 1964 - 112 P81C1968 (Oak Street)
Popper, K. Conjecture and Refutation: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. 1968 - 501 P81LEP1968 (Main Stacks, Oak Street)
Popper, K. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. 1968
Networks
- 595.7961782 G653a (Funk ACES, online)
Gordon, M. D. Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior. 2010 - T57.85 .N523 2010 (Grainger, online)
Newman, M. Networks: An Introduction. 2010 - 511.5 W349si (Grainger)
Watts, D. J. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. 2003
Human and Group Behavior
- 306.46 In67 (Main Stacks)
Ahrweiler, P. Innovation in Complex Social Systems. 2010 - 128.33 G367s (SSHEL Stacks)
Gigerenzer, G. et al. Simple Heuristics that Make Us Smart. 1999 - 658.3 M17h2006 (Main Stacks)
McGregor, D. and Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J. The Human Side of Enterprise. 2006 - 658.3008 P145d (Main Stacks, online)
Page, S. The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools and Societies. 2007 - 155.234 P655b (Oak Street)
Pinker, S. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. 2002 - 303.4 Sa974s (SSHEL Stacks, online)
Sawyer, R. K. Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems. 2005 - JC328.2 .S87 2004 (Main Stacks, audio version online)
Surowiecki, J. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations. 2004
Randomness/Uncertainty
- 006.312 Ad959 (Grainger, online)
Baoding L. Uncertainty Theory: A Branch of Mathematics for Modeling Human Uncertainty. 2010 - 003.54 H163r (Math Library, online)
Halpern, J. Reasoning about Uncertainty. 2017 - 003.54 T143b (Main Stacks, Grainger, Oak Street)
Taleb, N. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. 2010 - 155.24 T143a (Main Stacks)
Taleb, N. Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder. 2012
Strategy
- 658.08 AN8B1970 (Main Stacks, Oak Street)
Ansoff, H. I. Business Strategy: Selected Readings. 1969 - 658.802 K56b (Main Stacks, audio version online)
Chan, W.K. and Mauborgne, R. Blue Ocean Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant. 2005 - 658 C361S (Main Stacks, online)
Chandler, A. D. Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise. 1962 - 658.4012 M668s (Main Stacks)
Mintzberg, H., Ahlstrand, B. W. et al. Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Management. 1998 - 658 P8341c1998 (Main Stacks)
Porter, M. E. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. 1998
Systems Thinking
- 658.403 B63s (Grainger, online)
Boardman,J. and Sauser, B. Systems thinking: coping with 21st century problems. 2008 - 301.4 Em3s1969 (Main Stacks)
Emery, F. E. Systems Thinking: Selected Readings. 1969 - 003 G298t (Grainger)
Georgiou, I. Thinking through systems thinking. 2007 - 501 Si53s1996 (Grainger, online)
Simon, H. A. The Sciences of the Artificial. 1996
Major Academic Journals
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- British Journal of Industrial Relations
- Industrial & Labor Relations Review
- Industrial Relations
- Organizational Dynamics
- Relations Industrielles
Research Institutes & Associations
- Air Force Institute of Technology
- Cambridge University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Cornell University
- Delft University of Technology
- George Mason University
- Keio University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Old Dominion University
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Stanford University
- Technical University of Lisbon
- University of California, San Diego
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Michigan
- University of Southern California
- University of Virginia