The journal project is based on the observation that models and concepts of self-organisation, non linearity, complexity, neural networks, adaptive systems, computational, autopoïesis, emergent properties… have a crucial role in new theories and modelling in economic, organisational, management and, more generally, social systems. It is not neutral from an epistemological point of view: the economic and social systems must be approached or conceived as open dynamical and/or evolutionary systems. An economic system needs not to be or to move towards an equilibrium state. We live in a changing society, in temporary and evolutionary socio-economic systems. One must pay attention to the nature and role of new technologies in an evolving society and to what we call the new economy. Understanding and modelling of change is the main challenge of our times.
We can learn from new methods or modelling approaches which are more frequently used in mathematics or in “hard” sciences and, more precisely, from new simulation approaches, dynamic or structural modelling which can be found in other disciplines: neural networks, chaos theory, fractals, cellular automata…
We are interested to examine all papers sharing this orientation and related to these themes and/or to some of the detailed topics presented hereafter. The practical submissions conditions are presented in another part of the present issue.
The scope of the journal is narrow because we focus on self-organisational and complexity approaches in economic, management and social sciences. But it is wide in the same time in the sense that we are concerned by the modelling of change. This domain apply to the entire set of (i) relevant micro- and macro-analytic work on the methods and tools useful for dynamical modelling and understanding of change in economic and social systems, (ii) content analysis of the micro and macro typical changes in progress. (iii) epistemological and methodological articles on the analysis and modelling of change.
Our goal, globally, is to keep a dynamic model orientated approach. However, we insist, for being accepted, it is not necessary that a submitted article operates with these notions or that it presents formal models. We are also interested by a characterisation of some stylised facts or by some original empirical analysis of the present changes, and by methodological or theoretical aspects.
Eventually, we emphasise that we want to provide a publishing tool useful for all the social sciences.
We hope the reader will consider the following list of topics as an opened set. Should you have any scientific comments, queries or suggestions, please contact the Editor-in-chi
Evolutionary economics
- Evolutionary approach of technical change
- Schumpeterian economics
- Darwinian economics
- Self-organizing approach in economics
- Co-evolutionary processes
- Rationality and rule following behavior
Institutions
- Institutional economics, old and new
- Institutionalism in organizational analysis
- The nature and the theory of the firm
- Transaction costs analysis and applications
Management science and complexity
- Decision-making
- Problem solving
- Strategic management
- Strategic economic models
- Information systems
- Structural changes in organizations
- The boundaries of organizations
- Heuristic methods
Learning organizations
- Learning behavior
- Routines in organizations
- Search behavior
- The resources of organizations
- Intelligent social learning
- Semiotic models of organization
- Models of organizational learning
Change in economics
- Technological change, technological paradigms
- Evolution of industries
- Industry life cycle
- Innovation
- Technological diffusion models
- Path-dependency phenomena
- The performance of industries over time
- Economics of transition
- Regulation School
- The place of the heterogeneity of agents
- The role and the evolution of R&D
- The place and the practice of science
- Finance and economic change
The new economy
- Knowledge-based economy
- The Network Economy
- New technologies and growth
- The weightless economy
- Increasing-returns economics
- Characteristics and indicators of the new economy
- Lean organizations
- Alliance networks
- The entrepreneurial phenomenon
- The Knowledge society, the cognitive capitalism and the post-industrial society
- The new forms of capitalism
- Finance expansion in the contemporary world
- Changes in labor, employment and social security issues
- The place of the welfare state
System thinking in economics and social sciences
- Self-organizations models
- Economics of networks
- Emergence of collective phenomena
- Self-reference
- Autopoietic theory and applications
- Diversity and heterogeneity
Modeling approaches and applications
- Non linear dynamic models
- Neural networks
- Genetic Algorithms
- System dynamics approach
- Simulation models and applications in economics and social sciences
- Simulation software and applications
- Autopoiesis
- Artificial Life and applications in economics and social sciences
- Simulation methods
- Analysis of non linear dynamic models
- Agent based evolutionary economic model
- Multi-agent systems
- Semiotic Agent-Based Modeling
- The NK models
- Evolutionary simulation
- Coevolutionary approach
- Fractal and chaos
Methodological and epistemological topics
- Modelling and historical processes
- Structural change and dynamic processes
- Scientific role of evolutionary simulation models
- Simulation models as thought experiments
- Simulation philosophy and methodological relevancy
- Role of cognitive sciences in economic and social fields
- The dynamics-computation debate
- The relevancy of connectionism and constructivist approaches in economics and social sciences
- Dealing with radical uncertainty and the unexpected
- The emergence of order
- The relevancy of the evolutionary approaches in social sciences
- The inter-disciplinarity
The journal should wish to consider publishing not only articles, book reviews and essays, but also all means of broadening awareness and stimulating debate:
- extracts or summary conclusions of recent studies funded by governments, international organisations or fundations, published by academics, Think-tanks, management and business consultants, especially in advance of the appearances of the full reports;
- chapters from published or unpublished dissertations and other specialised compendia that might not otherwise be known to the journal’s world-wide readership;
- speeches, conference papers, or translations of significant works not currently appearing in English;
- detailed bibliographies on comparative issues in models and applications of system and complexity approach in economics and social sciences;
- detailed biographies;
- presentations of groups, laboratories, teams and associations working on system sciences and on applications in economics and management.
Manuscripts submitted should conform to the “Guidelines for Authors”. The author must sent five copies to the Editorial secretary, at the following address:
EJESS – Lavoisier
14, rue de provigny
94236 Cachan Cedex – France
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