Capturing Bottom-Up Information Technology Use Processes: A Complex Adaptive Systems Model

MIS Quarterly ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Information Technology Use ◽  
Complex Adaptive

The Dynamics of Change Following Extreme Events: Transition, Scale, and Adaptation in Systems Under Stress

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 827-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise K. Comfort ◽  
Thomas W. Haase ◽  
Gunes Ertan ◽  
Steve R. Scheinert
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Poor Response ◽  
Minimal Change ◽  
Adaptive Performance ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
And Training

Whether and how organizations adapt to risk in changing contexts is a perennial problem in public administration. We explore this problem in a comparative analysis of four hurricanes that struck the Gulf Coast in 2005 and 2008: Hurricanes Katrina and Gustav in Louisiana and Hurricanes Rita and Ike in Texas. We use a framework of complex adaptive systems to assess what changes facilitate this transition in disaster contexts and what conditions inhibit adaptation. Methods include content and network analysis, including the calculation of E/I index scores. Findings suggest that investment in information technology and training in Louisiana following a perceived poor response to Katrina in 2005 led to adaptive performance in Gustav in 2008 in Louisiana, whereas minimal change following a perceived credible response to Rita in 2005 led to slower adaptation in response to Ike in 2008 in Texas.

Social-Cognitive Mechanisms and Personality Coherence: Self-Knowledge, Situational Beliefs, and Cross-Situational Coherence in Perceived Self-Efficacy

1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Cervone
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
High Level

This article presents a social-cognitive analysis of cross-situational coherence in personality functioning Social-cognitive analyses are contrasted with those of trait approaches in personality psychology Rather than attributing coherence to high-level constructs that correspond directly to observed patterns of social behavior, social-cognitive theory pursues a “bottom-up” analytic strategy in which coherence derives from interactions among multiple underlying causal mechanisms, no one of which corresponds directly to a broad set of responses Research investigating social and self-knowledge underlying cross-situational coherence in a central social-cognitive mechanism, perceived self-efficacy, is presented Idio-graphic analyses revealed that individuals' schematic self-knowledge and situational beliefs give rise to patterns of high and low self-efficacy appraisal across diverse, idiosyncratic sets of situations that do not, in general, correspond to traditional high-level trait categories Bottom-up analyses in personality psychology are related to other disciplines' analyses of organization in complex, adaptive systems

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