Chaos Theory and Emergent Behavior: How Ephemeral Organizations Function as Strange Attractors through Information Communication Technologies
Chaos theory holds that systems act in unpredictable nonlinear ways and that their behavior can only be observed, never predicted. This is an informative model for an organization in crisis. The West Virginia water contamination crisis, which began on January 9, 2014, fits the criteria of a system i...
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UKnowledge
2016
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| Online Access: | http://uknowledge.uky.edu/comm_etds/49 http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&context=comm_etds |