SOCIAL COMPLEX EVOLVING SYSTEMS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING Elena Antonacopoulou 1 GNOSIS University of Liverpool Management School Chatham Street Liverpool, L69 7ZH UK Tel: 44 (0)151 795 3727 Fax: 44 (0)151 795 3001 E-mail: e.antonacopoulou@liv.co.uk Ricardo Chiva 2 Universitat Jaume I Campus del Riu Sec 12071 Castellón Spain Tel: 34 964 728543 Fax: 34 964 728629 E-mail: rchiva@emp.uji.es . Paper accepted for presentation at the OKLC 2005 Conference, Boston. 1 The author would like to acknowledge the support of the ESRC/EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management Research under grant number RES-331-25-0024 for this research. 2 The author would like to acknowledge the support of the Fundació Caixa Castelló Bancaixa under grant numbers P1-1A2002-18 and 04I007-35 for this research. 1