The problem of prediction and control in theoretical diversity and the promise of the complexity sciences

Discovering the temporal limits to predictability is a prime area for resea rch into a perspective of social organization as a complex adaptive system with emergent properties. However, to the extent that these insights on pre dictability and control apply to social systems, both the objectivist and s ubjectivist positions can be considered the true state of affairs. The purp ose of this manuscript is to (a) examine the present stare of theoretical d iversity in organization theory, particularly, the notion of paradigm incom mensurability, and (b) how the problem of prediction and control may be dea lt with by the emerging complexity sciences.