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Facilitation in Complexity

From Creation to Co-creation, from Dreaming to Co-dreaming, from Evolution to Co-evolution

  • Offers conceptual solutions for tackling complex management challenges

  • Discusses tactical management as the distinctive trait for co-creation

  • Introduces multi and transdisciplinary management methods applied to diverse domains

Part of the book series: Contributions to Management Science (MANAGEMENT SC.)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
  2. The Main Ingredients and Positions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Three MuskEUteers

      • A. Caro-González, A. Serra, X. Albala, C. E. Borges, D. Casado-Mansilla, J. Colobrans et al.
      Pages 3-28Open Access
    3. Denica 2.0 and Tactical Management Information System (TMIS)

      • Gilles Van Thuyne, Tom Uvin, Renata Petrevska Nechkoska, Geert Poels
      Pages 29-65Open Access
    4. Key Directions for the New Project Manager: Project Management Tactics (PMT)

      • Ana Dajovska Trajkovska, Renata Petrevska Nechkoska, Gjorgji Manceski
      Pages 67-91
    5. The Gig Economy in the Post-COVID Era

      • Dimitar Nikoloski, Natasha Trajkova Najdovska, Renata Petrevska Nechkoska, Ljupcho Pechijareski
      Pages 93-117
    6. Circular Production Chains: A Micro and Meso Approach

      • Wouter Van Cauwenberghe, Renata Petrevska Nechkoska, Geert Poels
      Pages 119-154
    7. Conceptualisation of Decentralized Blockchain-Based, Open-Source ERP Marketplaces

      • Gjorgji Manceski, Renata Petrevska Nechkoska
      Pages 175-202
  3. Approaches, Pilots, Blueprints

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
    2. MultiCREATION: Multi-Stakeholder Problem-Driven Approach

      • Renata Petrevska Nechkoska, Monika Angeloska Dichovska, Marjan Angeleski, Daniela Koltovska Nechoska, Mimoza Bogdanoska Jovanovska
      Pages 205-235
    3. PDIA in the Balkans: The Western Balkans Alumni Association (WBAA) as Positive Deviance

      • Renata Petrevska Nechkoska, Arber Hajrizaj, Olga Arsic, Klejda Harasani, Milan Stojanovic, Sabahudin Mujkić et al.
      Pages 237-267
    4. Academia Diffusion Experiment: Trailblazing the Emergence from Co-Creation

      • Renata Petrevska Nechkoska, Antonia Caro Gonzalez, Alberto Bertello, Simona Grande, Marc Schmüser, Nataliia Rzhevska et al.
      Pages 269-306
    5. Multi-Vortex Tornado Blueprint for Disruptive Global Co-Creation (Inspired by EUvsVirus)

      • Renata Petrevska Nechkoska, Antonia Caro Gonzalez, Alberto Bertello, Simona Grande, Marc Schmüser, Nataliia Rzhevska et al.
      Pages 307-362Open Access
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 363-365

About this book

This book trailblazes co-evolution approaches which have been prototyped and tried out by the authors, with global academic and practitioner backgrounds. It was devised to help humanity, people, perceived as complex adaptive systems, to self-organize, co-create, and manage complexity, by showcasing with own example, as individuals and open networks. The book bundles main components needed for facilitation in complexity, while each chapter covers conceptual solutions for specific complexity strategies, tactics, operations - projects. These solutions serve as blueprints and roadmaps, providing approaches for practitioners and researchers alike. The main features incorporated in all the approaches are transcending silos and organizational hierarchies toward a borderless collaboration between diverse stakeholders with dynamic roles and accountabilities regarding purposes, missions and solutions. The book includes suggestions for strategic, tactical and operational managerial and governance approaches for disruptive, short-term, innovative, open, large-scale engagements where rapid onboarding, situational awareness, innovation and innovation in context, and action are expected while fast facilitation, dynamic reconfiguration, and self-organization are required. It also describes how long-term sustained co-creative action needs to be facilitated, to adapt to external and internal complexity dynamics while initiating positive change. This book showcases how co-creation and co-dreaming emerge with co-evolution. 

Chapters 1, 2, and 11 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.


Keywords

  • Co-Creation
  • Complexity
  • Management
  • Tactics
  • Strategy

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Renata Petrevska Nechkoska

  • Faculty of Economics, Prilep, University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bitola, North Macedonia

    Gjorgji Manceski

  • Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Geert Poels

About the editors

Renata Petrevska Nechkoska is a professor, and practitioner with considerable both practical and academic experience in Western Balkans and in Europe. After a decade of middle management experience in banking, she moved to the academic world in order to approach tactical management from a multidisciplinary perspective, incorporating strategy and operations, as well as project management with her Denica managerial method. She holds a double PhD degree in Business Economics from Ghent University (Belgium) and in Management from the University of St. Kliment Ohridski (North Macedonia). In her role as a project evaluator for the European Commission, as well as numerous voluntary engagements as Head of research at the Western Balkans Alumni Association, project manager for academia at global hackathons, initiator, and facilitator of the Academia Diffusion Experiment she conceptualises, traces, and applies strategic, tactical, and operational management practices in an unpredictable global environment in order to pave the foundations and bridges for co-evolution in this world.

Gjorgji Manceski is full professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University St. Kliment Ohridski Bitola (North Macedonia). He has been Dean of the Faculty for 8 years and prior to that Chief of the Department for Mathematics, Statistics and Cybernetics, as well as board member of the company Vitaminka Prilep. He is also an advisor for the UNDP self-employment program, guiding young entrepreneurs with significant knowledge acquired from his academic and entrepreneurial experience. His publications have been a substantial contribution to the universities across Western Balkans.

Geert Poels is a full professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Ghent University (Belgium). He is a member of the University Research Council. He also teaches and directs master dissertation research at IC Institute (Beersel, Belgium). He is leading the department of Business Informatics for decades, bringing out the best of global scholar potential with abundance of geographical and professional backgrounds, research interests and directions, enabling substantial qualitative and quantitative impact for science and practice, as well as for building bridges with, such as in this work, Europe and Western Balkans.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Facilitation in Complexity

  • Book Subtitle: From Creation to Co-creation, from Dreaming to Co-dreaming, from Evolution to Co-evolution

  • Editors: Renata Petrevska Nechkoska, Gjorgji Manceski, Geert Poels

  • Series Title: Contributions to Management Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11065-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11064-1Published: 10 January 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11067-2Due: 24 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11065-8Published: 09 January 2023

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1941

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-716X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 365

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 123 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Business and Management, general, Management, Industries, Organization, IT in Business

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