[Kb-complexity] OPen systems theory and complexity theory

[Warren Linds <w.linds@sasktel.net>]

I have been reading Fred Emery and Trist's article from 1965 called  The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments
F.E. Emery and E.L. Trist, ʽThe causal texture of organizational environmentsʼ, Human Relations, vol.18 (1965), pp. 21-32.       . At first reading it seems like they are writing here from a complexity perspective. Anyone out there familiar with open systems theory? Any idea about how OST is different or overlaps ro draws from or influences complexity theory. Is it just from a different (organizational development) perspective whereas complexity theory comes from the sciences? Thanks.

Warren Linds