I apologize in advance for any cross-postings This year the
*Organization Science Winter Conference* will be held at The Resort at Squaw Creek in California. The dates of the conference are February 6-10, 2008 (the preconference will be held on the 6th/7th and the main conference will begin at 4:30 p.m. on the 7th). The URL is:
http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/oswc.
*The program is really starting to shape up and the details are listed below.* *KEYNOTE SPEAKER:*
* Dave Snowden*, retired from IBM Global Technology Services consulting and the Founder and Chief Operating Office of
THE COGNITIVE EDGE--a complexity research and consulting organization.
*OPENING PANEL SESSION:
*Robert Axtell*, formerly at Brookings and currently at George Mason complexity center. Best known for his classic Sugarscape agent-modeling book with Joshua Epstein,
/Growing Artificial Societies/ (1996); Current research is related to empirical power law.
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Paul Ormerod*, Best known for 3 books:
/The Death of Economics/ (1995),
/Butterfly Economics/ (2001), and
/Why Most Things Fail: Evolution/, Extinction and Economics (2006). Currently researching empirical power law phenomena.
*Nicolaj Siggelkow* will expand beyond his talk on "talking pigs."
*COMPLEXITY LEADERSHIP PANEL Chair,
*Mary Uhl-Bien*, U. Nebraska and co-founder (with Russ Marion) of the "complexity leadership" movement.
*Lyndon Rego*, Center for Creative Leadership, Presentation focuses on complexity leadership after Katrina hit New Orleans.
*Max Boisot*, /Founder the #1 business school in China/ (and other business schools). His current research focuses on China. Authored books
/Knowledge Assets/ (1998), and
/Explorations in Information Space/ (2007). He will discuss Katrina aftermath in terms of three cognitive and behavioral regimes--Ordered, Chaotic, and Complex.
*We have invited *Joe Pfeiffer*, NYC Fire Chief to draw comparisons between 9/11 and Katrina aftermath complexity leadership pluses and minuses.
Please submit your proposal for papers or panel sessions by October 20th. The early registration fee is $495.00. Participants will be responsible for travel and hotel expenses.
For further inquiries, please contact Danielle Trojan (
dtrojan@duke.edu).