This article introduces a special issue of Complexity dedicated to the increasingly important element of complexity science that engages with social policy. We introduce and frame an emerging research agenda that seeks to enhance social policy by working at the interface between the social sciences and the physical sciences (including mathematics and computer science), and term this research ar...

Introduction. This paper presents a review of research framed within the concept of social capital and published by library and information science researchers. Method. Ninety-nine papers fitting the criteria of having a specific library and information science orientation were identified from two periodical databases: Library and information science and technology abstracts and Library literat...

This paper reviews the literature on small-world networks in social science and management. This relatively new area of research represents an unusual level of crossdisciplinary research within social science and between social science and the physical sciences. We review the findings of this emerging area with an eye to describing the underlying theory of small worlds, the technical apparatus,...