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Pertinent to modern industry, administration, finance and society, the most pressing issue for firms today is how to reapproach the way we think and work in business. With topics ranging from improving productivity and coaxing economic growth after periods of market inactivity, Complex Decision-Making in Economy and Finance offers pragmatic solutions for dealing with the critical levels of disorder and chaos that have developed throughout the modern age. This book examines how to design complex products and systems, the benefits of collective intelligence and self-organization, and the best methods for handling risks in problematic environments. It also analyzes crises and how to manage them. This book is of benefit to companies and public bodies with regards to saving assets, reviving fortunes and laying the groundwork for robust, sustainable societal dividends. Examples, case studies, practical hints and guidelines illustrate the topics, particularly in finance.

This book, the second of two volumes dedicated to ethics in social networking and business, presents the future and changing paradigms related to ethics, and morality in our interconnected society. This volume analyzes advanced topics, including new technologies, transhumanism and uberization, to provide a more complex, shared and collective environment into why business ethics is essential for managing risks and uncertainties. The Ethics in Social Networking and Business series is the result of a cross-integration of real experiences (from IBM, society and the Rotary Club), transdisciplinary works in decision making, and advances at the boundaries of several scientific fields.

This book, the first of two volumes dedicated to ethics in social networking and business, presents the notions, theories and practical aspects related to ethics, morale and deontology in our society. Through a series of discussions and examples on topics ranging from complexity to evolution theories, the author provides an insight into why business ethics is essential for managing risks and uncertainties. The Ethics in Social Networking and Business series is the result of a cross-integration of real experiences (from IBM, society and the Rotary Club), transdisciplinary works in decision making, and advances at the boundaries of several scientific fields.

This book, the first of two volumes dedicated to ethics in social networking and business, presents the notions, theories and practical aspects related to ethics, morale and deontology in our society. Through a series of discussions and examples on topics ranging from complexity to evolution theories, the author provides an insight into why business ethics is essential for managing risks and uncertainties. The Ethics in Social Networking and Business series is the result of a cross-integration of real experiences (from IBM, society and the Rotary Club), transdisciplinary works in decision making, and advances at the boundaries of several scientific fields.

Faced with ever-increasing complexity on a daily basis, the decision-makers of today are struggling to find the appropriate models, methods and tools to face the issues arising in complex systems across all levels of global operations. Having, in the past, resorted to outdated approaches which limit problem-solving to linear world views, we must now capitalize on complexities in order to succeed and progress in our society. This book provides a guide to harnessing the wealth inherent to complex systems. It organizes the transition to complex decision-making in all business spheres while providing many examples in various application domains. The authors offer fresh developments for understanding and mastering the global \"uberization\" of the economy, the post-modern management of computer-assisted production and the rise of cognitive robotics science applications.

This book focuses on the emergence of the “science of sustainability” and the key concepts in making sustainability operational in an organization. The authors discuss the methods, techniques and tools needed to manage the impact of sustainability and how these can be reformulated into business models and solutions for new growth and applications. They then move onto the reformulation of future thinking processes before ending by looking towards an approach for the measurement of sustainability and competitiveness.

This book discusses the key concepts of the technologies that underpin the drive towards sustainability in today's complex world. The authors propose an integrated view of the frontiers facing any organization nowadays – whether an enterprise, an administration or any human collective construction – that operates with a goal, a mission or an objective. While a unified approach still seems unachievable, the authors have nevertheless tackled the amalgamation of the underpinning elements (theories, domains of expertise and practice) and propose a model for assimilating the new concepts with a global view to design the sustainable organizations of the future. The book paves a way towards a general convergence theory, which will manifest, as a by-product, genuine sustainability. Furthermore, and due to the fact that the same main principles apply, the book redesigns the notion of \"competitiveness\", which today is too often simply reduced to profitability.

This book, the second of two volumes dedicated to ethics in social networking and business, presents the future and changing paradigms related to ethics, and morality in our interconnected society.This volume analyzes advanced topics, including new technologies, transhumanism and uberization, to provide a more complex, shared and collective environment into why business ethics is essential for managing risks and uncertainties.The Ethics in Social Networking and Business series is the result of a cross-integration of real experiences (from IBM, society and the Rotary Club), transdisciplinary works in decision making, and advances at the boundaries of several scientific fields. 

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: New Beginnings -- I.1. A present-day situation -- I.2. A basic awareness: the governance of a system -- I.3. What lies ahead of us? -- I.4. Guidelines and ways forward -- PART 1: Dealing with Complexity -- 1 Engineering Complexity within Present-Day Industrial Systems -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Basic properties of complex industrial systems -- 1.3. The complexity of systems -- 1.4. Analysis of some industrial dynamic systems -- 1.5. Applications of new concepts in industrial systems -- 2 Designing Complex Products and Services -- 2.1. Complex systems engineering: the basics -- 2.2. The implementation conditions for self-organization -- 2.3. Advantages and benefits of a complexity approach -- 3 Engineering and Complexity Theory: A Field Design Approach -- 3.1. Design approach for a complex system -- 3.2. Applications and solutions -- 3.3. Application: organization and management in companies -- 3.4. Main conclusions related to the first three chapters -- 4 Organizational Constraints and Complexity Theory: Modeling with Agents -- 4.1. A preamble to modeling -- 4.2. Introducing collective intelligence -- 4.3. Studying the agent concept -- 4.4. Applications using agents -- 4.5. Conclusion: information related to the use and usage of modeling -- 5 Complexity and the Theory of Organizations: Implementation of Collective Intelligence -- 5.1. Introducing the notion of collective intelligence -- 5.2. Definition of a multi-agent system -- 5.3. Behavioral and interaction strategies between agents -- 5.4. Concluding comments -- 6 Complexity and the Theory of Organizations: The Notion of Collective Patterns -- 6.1. The emergence of collective patterns -- 6.2. System complexity factors and their measurement -- 6.3. Conclusion: towards the notion of \"complex adaptive systems\" (CAS).