Complexity Theory in Public Administration and Metagovernance

Erkoçak, Ege; Açıkalın, Şuay Nilhan

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09710-7_6

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“…It refers to outputs not proportional to the inputted efforts and is the defining feature of complexity. This is generated by dynamics between the system's elements that aggregate at different levels, leading to situations that do not reproduce past trajectories (Erkoçak & Açıkalın, 2015). In this context, small changes can have disproportionately large effects on the system (Bramwell & Lane, 2013;Speakman, 2016).…”

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“…Systems thinking offers a set of principles that, in an integrated way, suit the challenge of studying tourism's inherent complexities from its elemental to its more complex aggregation levels. The tourism systems thinking integrated framework introduced in this article helps to (1) identify the elements of the tourism system (Dekkers, 2015), (2) focus on the functions of the elements in relation to the system as a whole (Mella, 2012), (3) study the dynam ics of the system to understand its behavior (Mai & Smith, 2015), (4) recognize the mutual influences between the tourism system and its environment (Mella, 2012), (5) reveal the organizational structure of tourism systems through abstraction and hierarchy (Mella, 2009), (6) consider the emerging nature of the tourism phenomenon as something more than just the sum of its elements (Dekkers, 2015), (7) recognize that outcomes in complex systems do not depend on a centralized coordination but on selforganization emerging from local interactions (Farrell & Twining-Ward, 2004), and (8) acknowledge that results may be nonlinear in relation to the invested efforts (Erkoçak & Açıkalın, 2015;Meekes et al, 2016). This is not just a combination of fancy concepts.…”

Section: Final Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Tourism Systems Thinking: Towards an Integrated Framework to Guide the Study of the Tourism Phenomenon

Rodriguez-Giron¹,

Vanneste²

2019

Tourism Culture & Communication

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Tourism is widely recognized as a complex phenomenon. Some academics, however, have studied tourism from their own specialization, contributing from the perspective of their specific fields. Others have argued that the complexities of tourism should be tackled more systemically and so have used diverse concepts from systems thinking theory. Nevertheless, nobody has yet presented an integrated framework connecting existing diverse systems thinking concepts, which serves as a more structured point of departure from which to study tourism. This article (1) starts by identifying seven complexities of tourism, (2) discusses eight systems thinking's key notions in the context of those complexities, (3) structures an integrated tourism systems thinking conceptual framework, and (4) provides an application example. Thus, this work contributes with a more structured theoretical foundation for the study of tourism as a system and with an integrated approach to understand its complexities.

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Section: The Eighth Concept Is "Nonlinearity"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Final Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism Systems Thinking: Towards an Integrated Framework to Guide the Study of the Tourism Phenomenon

Rodriguez-Giron¹,

Vanneste²

2019

Tourism Culture & Communication

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“…Taking the point of view of a PA more detailed activities have to be introduced in order to implement a service. The resulting BP models start to differentiate considering, among the others, organization dependent characteristics [5]. Indeed, organizational structure of PAs is similar but not identical.…”

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Process Variability Modeling for Complex Organizations

Cognini

Corradini

Polini

et al. 2015

2015 International Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES)

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When organizations provide similar services and share the same mission they often behave similarly. This, in particular, is true in the context of Public Administration where different offices organize the provisioning of services to citizens in similar ways. This paper presents a novel notation and approach to support variability modeling for those scenarios in which it is difficult to fully foresee in advance how variability can affect the various process perspectives. Notation and approach are inspired on feature modeling where features are used to represents activities of a processes family that can be differently implemented. Applying the proposed approach it is possible to derive a kind of partially predefined process model variant, which is a set of fragments, that in a subsequent step needs to be augmented with additional elements to then fully define process behavior. Notation and approach has been validated on real case studies with encouraging results

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Kutadgu Bilig from the Point of View of Complexity

Çakır

2021

Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2020

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Complexity Theory in Public Administration and Metagovernance

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Tourism Systems Thinking: Towards an Integrated Framework to Guide the Study of the Tourism Phenomenon

Tourism Systems Thinking: Towards an Integrated Framework to Guide the Study of the Tourism Phenomenon

Process Variability Modeling for Complex Organizations

Kutadgu Bilig from the Point of View of Complexity

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