Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (Evangelia)
Professor Eve (Evangelia) Mitleton-Kelly
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Non LSE positions held
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Open University
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Visiting Professor
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World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems
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Member
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Experience keywords:
corporate governance & project governance; organisational learning; agent-based modelling; complexity theory; innovation; relationship between IT professionals and strategists; leadership; network theory; co-creating enabling infrastructures; sustainable development; socio-technical and cultural frameworks; redesigning an organisation; energy & climate change; IT legacy systems; post merger integration; disaster risk reduction in West African States
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Professor Mitleton-Kelly’s research has concentrated on the implications of the theories of complexity for organizations and specifically on strategy and policy development and on the creation of enabling environments to address apparently intractable problems in business and the public sector. She has led and participated in projects addressing practical problems using complexity theory, funded by the EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council), ESRC (Economics & Social Sciences Research Council), AHRC (Art & Humanities Research Council), the European Commission, business and government, including: alignment between IT and the rest of the business; the reduction of problems associated with IT legacy systems; lack of organisational integration post-merger; project governance for a national project delivered locally by multiple partners for the Royal British Legion; a framework of governance for government with 6 Government Administrations; leadership in the National Health Service (UK), Defra, and many other organisations in the private and public sectors; sustainable development in communities, organizational learning, the emergence of new organizational forms, the ‘design’ of organizations, co-evolutionary sustainability, innovation in the private and public sector, diversity, art & complexity, disaster risk reduction in West African States, energy & climate change; relationship between policy and outcomes (Health & Safety Executive); uncertainty & risk in decision making for Local Government; and contingency planning related to evacuation following a major disaster.
She has developed a theory of complex social systems and an integrated methodology using both qualitative and quantitative tools and methods. The theory is being used for teaching at universities around the world, including three EPSRC-funded short courses at LSE, to train researchers; two courses at Beijing (Jan 2010 & Apr 2011) to train senior government officials; and short courses at Schumacher College, Devon, UK.
Her publications, including a book on corporate governance and complexity (2010) and the work of the LSE Complexity Group, are on www.lse.ac.uk/complexity . A new volume, edited by EMK and based on the work of Socionical Partners, is forthcoming, to be published by Springer in 2013.
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Sectors and industries to which research relates:
Environment; Information Technology; Policy and Regulatory Bodies
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
western Africa
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Languages: French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; Greek [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Intermediate]
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Media experience:
Radio; TV
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
Mitleton-Kelly, Eve and Ramalingam, Ben (2011) Organizational learning and complexity science: exploring the joint potential. In: Allen, Peter and Maguire, Steve and McKelvey, Bill, (eds.) The SAGE handbook of complexity and management. SAGE Publications, London, UK. ISBN 9781847875693 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2011) A complexity theory approach to sustainability: a longitudinal study in two London NHS hospitals. The learning organization, 18 (1). pp. 45-53. ISSN 0969-6474 Bosse, Tibor and Chandra, Vikas and Mitleton-Kelly, Eve and Wal, C. Natalie (2011) Analysis of beliefs of survivors of the 7/7 London bombings: application of a formal model for contagion of mental states. Lecture notes in computer science, 7062 (1). pp. 423-434. ISSN 0302-9743 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve and Puszczynski, L. R. (2011) An integrated methodology to facilitate the emergence of new ways of organising. In: Minai, , Ali A and Braha, Dan and Bar-Yam, Yaneer, (eds.) Unifying themes in complex systems: proceedings of the fifth international conference on complex systems. Springer , London, UK. ISBN 9783642176340 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2011) Identifying the multi-dimensional problem space & co-creating an enabling environment. Emergence: Complexity & Organization , 13 (1-2). pp. 3-25. ISSN 1521-3250 Malarz, Krzysztof and Chandra, Vikas and Mitleton-Kelly, Eve and Kulakowski, Krzysztof (2010) Probabilistic spreading of information in a spatial network. In:2010 International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, CISIM 2010 (8 October 2010 - 10 October 2010 : Krakow, Poland). Goergen, Marc and Malin, Christine and Mitleton-Kelly, Eve and Al-Hawamdeh, Ahmed and Hse-Yu Chiu, Iris (2010) Corporate governance and complexity theory. Edward Elgar Publishing , Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9781849801041 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2010) Identifying the multi-dimensional problem space & co-creating an enabling environment. In:1st International Workshop on Complexity and Real World Applications (21-23 July 2010 : Southampton, UK). Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2007) The emergence of final cause. In: Aaltonen, Mika, (ed.) The third lens: multi-ontology sense-making and strategic decision-making. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, UK, pp. 111-124. ISBN 9780754647980 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2006) IT legacy systems: enabling environments that reduce the legacy problem: a complexity perspective. In: Madhavji, Nazim and Fernandez-Ramil, Juan and Perry, Dewayne, (eds.) Software evolution and feedback: theory and practice. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 53-70. ISBN 9780470871805 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2006) A complexity approach to co-creating an innovative environment. World futures, 62 (3). pp. 223-239. ISSN 0260-4027 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2006) Co-evolutionary integration: the co-creation of a new organizational form following a merger and acquisition. Emergence: Complexity & Organization , 8 (2). pp. 36-47. ISSN 1521-3250 Aaltonen, Mika and Barth, Theodor and Casti, John L. and Mitleton-Kelly, Eve and Sanders, T. Irene (2005) Complexity as a sensemaking framework. TUTU Publications, Helsinki, Finland Mitleton-Kelly, Eve and Land, F. (2004) Complexity & information systems. In: Cooper, Cary and Argyris, Chris and Starbuck, William Haynes, (eds.) Blackwell encyclopedia of management. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780631233176 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2004) The information systems professional as a hermit: of plural rationalities, information rejection and complexity. Innovation: the European journal of social science research, 17 (4). pp. 289-323. ISSN 1351-1610 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2004) Co-evolutionary integration: a complexity perspective on mergers & acquisitions. In:20th EGOS Colloquium (1-3 Jul 2004 : Ljubljana University, Slovenia). Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2004) An integrated methodology to facilitate the emergence of new ways of organising. In:Third European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (29-30 Apr 2004 : Reading, UK). Mitleton-Kelly, Eve and Speh Birkenkrahe, Marcus (2004) Treasury operations in a multi-national oil company: dialogue on the methodology of using natural experiments in complex evolving systems. In: Andriani, Pierpaolo and Passiante, Giuseppina, (eds.) Complexity theory and management of networks. Imperial College Press. ISBN 1860944604 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve, (ed.) (2003) Complex systems and evolutionary perspectives on organisations: the application of complexity theory to organisations. Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780080439570 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2003) Introduction. In: Mitleton-Kelly, Eve, (ed.) Complex systems and evolutionary perspectives on organisations: the application of complexity theory to organisations. Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK, pp. 3-20. ISBN 9780080439570 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2003) Ten principles of complexity and enabling infrastructures. In: Mitleton-Kelly, Eve, (ed.) Complex systems and evolutionary perspectives on organisations: the application of complexity theory to organisations. Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK, pp. 3-20. ISBN 9780080439570 Keskinen, Auli and Aaltonen, Mika and Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2003) Organisational complexity. TUTU Publications, Helsinki, Finland Garcia-Lorenzo, Lucia and Mitleton-Kelly, Eve and Galliers, R.D. (2003) Organisational complexity : organising through the generation and sharing of knowledge. International journal of knowledge, culture and change management, 3 (1). pp. 275-293. ISSN 1447-9524 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2003) Complexity research - approaches and methods: the LSE Complexity Group integrated methodology. In: Keskinen, Auli and Aaltonen, Mika and Mitleton-Kelly, Eve, (eds.) Organisational complexity. Finland Futures Research Centre, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Turku, Finland, pp. 56-77. ISBN 951564108X Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2003) Ten principles of complexity & enabling infrastructures. In: Mitleton-Kelly, Eve, (ed.) Complex systems & evolutionary perspectives of organisations: The application of complexity theory to organisations. Elsevier, pp. 23-50. ISBN 9780080439570 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve and Papaefthimiou, Maria C. (2002) Co-evolution of diverse elements interacting within a social ecosystem. In: Henderson, Peter, (ed.) Systems engineering for business process change. Springer. ISBN 1852333995 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve and Papaefthimiou, Maria C (2001) Co-evolution and an enabling infrastructure: a solution to legacy? In: Henderson, Peter, (ed.) Systems engineering for business process change. Springer-Verlag, England, pp. 164-181. ISBN 9781852332228 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (2000) Complexity: partial support for BPR. In: Henderson, Peter, (ed.) Systems engineering for business process change. Springer-Verlag, England, pp. 24-37. ISBN 9781852332228 Land, Frank and Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (1999) Complexity and information systems. In: Davis, Gordon, (ed.) The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of management information systems. Blackwell. ISBN 9780631214847 Mitleton-Kelly, Eve (1997) Organisation as co-evolving complex adaptive systems. In:British Academy of Management Conference (8-12 September 1997 : London, UK). Wirz, Martin and Franke, Tobias and Roggen, Daniel and Mitleton-Kelly, Eve and Lukowicz, Paul and Troster, Gerhard Inferring crowd conditions from pedestrians' location traces for real-time crowd Monitoring during city-scale mass gatherings. In: Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), 2012 IEEE 21st International Workshop on. , pp. 367-372. ISSN 1524-4547
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Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly is founder and Director of the Complexity Research Programme at LSE; Fellow of the Royal Institution; member of the Scientific Advisory Board to the ‘Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation’, Delft University of Technology; on the Editorial Board of the Journal of ‘Emergence: Complexity & Organisations’; was Coordinator of Links with Business, Industry and Government of the European Complex Systems Network of Excellence, Exystence (2003-2006); Director of the UK Complexity Society; and Executive Coordinator of SOL-UK (London) (Society for Organisational Learning) 1977-2008.
She has been Policy Advisor to European and USA organisations, the European Commission, several UK Government Departments; Scientific Advisor to the Governments of Australia, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands, Singapore and UK in developing a framework of governance for government based on complexity theory. Please see ‘A New Synthesis of Public Administration: Serving in the 21st Century’, by Jocelyne Bourgon, P.C., O.C., McGill Queen’s University Press http://mqup.mcgill.ca/
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