CHAOS-COMPLEXITY THEORY AT MANAGEMENT

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Zekai Öztürk
Selman Kızılkaya

Abstract

Internal and external environment where operating continues their activities have a changeable structure continuously. It is stated that operating has to adapt to this structure which causes unexpected, undesirable and sudden results. How operatings behave during this period is stated in chaos-complexity theory. Thus, it is pointed out that organizations can evaluate the environment from not only one perspective but also different perspectives. This study contains three parts. First part involves theoretical information about chaos term. It mentions how some researchers use the chaos term. At the second part, how chaos complexity theory undergoes changes until today is uttered. Moreover, in recent years, the importance of chaos complexity theory from administrative perspective has been mentioned. The last part contains some main features of chaos complexity theory. In this regard, some basic properties like butterfly effect, mutual attachment, edge of chaos and self-organization have been analyzed in this study.

Keywords: chaos, chaos and complexity theory, edge of chaos, eelf-organization, complex adaptive systems.

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Zekai Öztürk, Gazi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Health Care Management, Turkey

Zekai Öztürk graduated from Gazi University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences.  He got his master degree on management and planning in the institute of social sciences at Ankara University. He had his degree of philosophy on Business Administration in institute of social sciences at Hacettepe University. he has been Currently working as an Assoc.Prof.  at Gazi University, Faculty of Economics and in Administrative Sciences of Health Care Management Department.

Selman Kızılkaya, Middle East Technical University

PhD student, Gazi University, Healthcare Management

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