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Article: Complexity, chaos, and nonlinear dynamics: a new perspective on career development theory.(Articles)
- Article from:
- Career Development Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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The author presents a theory of career development drawing on nonlinear dynamics and chaos and complexity theories. Career is presented as a complex adaptive entity, a fractal of the human entity. Characteristics of complex adaptive entities, including (a) autopiesis, or self-regeneration; (b) open exchange; (c) participation in networks; (d) fractals; (e) phase transitions between order and chaos; (f) search for fitness peaks; (g) nonlinear dynamics; (h) sensitive dependence; (i) attractors that limit growth; (j) the role of strange attractors in emergence; and (k) spirituality, are described and then applied to careers. The article concludes with a brief case analysis ...
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Encyclopedia entry: nonlinear dynamics
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;
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...nonlinear dynamics study of systems governed by equations ... the same up close or far away. Nonlinear dynamics has shown that even systems governed ... complex behavior. The evolution of nonlinear dynamics was made possible by the application ...
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