Psicothema was founded in Asturias (northern Spain) in 1989, and is published jointly by the Psychology Faculty of the University of Oviedo and the Psychological Association of the Principality of Asturias (Colegio Oficial de Psicología del Principado de Asturias).
We currently publish four issues per year, which accounts for some 100 articles annually. We admit work from both the basic and applied research fields, and from all areas of Psychology, all manuscripts being anonymously reviewed prior to publication.
Psicothema, 2007. Vol. Vol. 19 (nº 2). 212-217
Juan Pastor y Antonio León García-Izquierdo
Universidad de Oviedo
En este trabajo presentamos la complejidad (no linealidad, caoticidad, autoorganización, fractalidad...) como una perspectiva epistemológica emergente, nueva y alternativa respecto a un viejo paradigma reduccionista y simplificador. De acuerdo con esta perspectiva, trataremos de mirar las organizaciones laborales desde la complejidad, esto es, viéndolas como Sistemas Adaptativos Complejos (SAC). Finalmente, ofrecemos una síntesis de las aplicaciones de la complejidad a la Psicología Social de las Organizaciones.
Complexity and social psychology of organizations. This article presents complexity (nonlinearity, chaos, self-organisation, fractals...) as a new and emerging epistemological paradigm, an alternative to an old, simpler, and reductionist paradigm. According to this point of view, we try to view work organizations as complex adaptive systems (CAS). Lastly, we offer a review of the literature on the applications of complexity to Organizational Social Psychology.
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