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3744
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1791

Overview

Bill McKelvey is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research encompasses multiple areas with a focus on agricultural sciences, business management, and health professions.

The main fields of study covered by McKelvey's work include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Health Professions

Within these broader fields, they have contributed to several subfields such as:

  • Plant Science
  • General Health Professions
  • Strategy and Management
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Food Science

Their research topics reflect interests in areas related to food security, sustainability, and innovation. These primary topics include:

  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence
  • Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability

McKelvey has published in various peer-reviewed journals, frequently contributing to:

  • Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
  • Agriculture and Human Values
  • Journal of Agriculture Food Systems and Community Development
  • Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
  • Journal of Applied Social Science

Recent publications by McKelvey include:

  • Back to the basics: reconciling the continuum and orthogonal conceptions of exploration and exploitation, 2020, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
  • Finding our way through the fog: embedding social infrastructure in food system resilience, 2025, Agriculture and Human Values
  • A decade of the Missouri Hunger Atlas: Information for action, 2022, Journal of Agriculture Food Systems and Community Development
  • Desire for Period Products: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Food Pantry Users in Three Midwestern States, 2024, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
  • Healthy Food and Nutrition Offerings at Midwestern Food Pantries: Assessing Organizational Culture, Capacity, and Practices, 2025, Journal of Applied Social Science

Frequent collaborators in their research include Mary Hendrickson, Darren Chapman, Sasanka Sekhar Chanda, Shoshanah Inwood, and Jill K. Clark.

Best Publications

  • Organizations and Organization Theory

    Jeffrey Pfeffer

  • Complexity Leadership Theory: Shifting leadership from the industrial age to the knowledge era !

    Mary Uhl-Bien;Russ Marion;Bill McKelvey

  • Populations, natural selection, and applied organizational science.

    Bill McKelvey;Howard Aldrich

  • Avoiding Complexity Catastrophe in Coevolutionary Pockets: Strategies for Rugged Landscapes

    Fen-Ru Shih;Mainak Mazumdar;Jeremy A. Bloom;Bill McKelvey

  • Organizational Systematics-Taxonomy, Evolution, Classification

    Bill McKelvey

  • Perspective—Quasi-Natural Organization Science

    Bill McKelvey

  • Using coevolutionary and complexity theories to improve IS alignment: a multi-level approach

    Hind Benbya;Bill McKelvey

  • Toward a complexity science of entrepreneurship

    Bill McKelvey

  • Toward a complexity theory of information systems development

    Hind Benbya;Bill McKelvey

  • The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management

    Peter Allen;Steve Maguire;Bill McKelvey

  • Complexity Theory in Organization Science: Seizing the Promise or Becoming a Fad?

    Bill McKelvey

  • Guidelines for the Empirical Classification of Organizations.

    Bill McKelvey

  • Perspective---From Gaussian to Paretian Thinking: Causes and Implications of Power Laws in Organizations

    Pierpaolo Andriani;Bill McKelvey

  • Complexity and Management: Moving From Fad To Firm Foundations

    Steve Maguire;Bill McKelvey

  • Integrating Modernist and Postmodernist Perspectives on Organizations: A Complexity Science Bridge

    Max Boisot;Bill Mckelvey

  • Power law distributions in entrepreneurship: : Implications for theory and research

    G. Christopher Crawford;Herman Aguinis;Benyamin Lichtenstein;Per Davidsson;Per Davidsson

  • Beyond Gaussian averages: redirecting international business and management research toward extreme events and power laws

    Pierpaolo Andriani;Bill McKelvey

  • Van de Ven and Johnson's “Engaged Scholarship”: Nice Try, But…

    Bill McKelvey

  • “Smart parts” supply networks as complex adaptive systems: analysis and implications

    Christine Wycisk;Bill McKelvey;Michael Hülsmann

  • Complexity Science and Organization Studies

    Steve Maguire;Bill McKelvey;Laurent Mirabeau;Nail Oztas

  • Organizational Systematics: Taxonomy, Evolution, Classification.

    Paula J. Dubeck;Bill McKelvey

Frequent Co-Authors

Herman Aguinis
Herman Aguinis George Washington University
Mary Uhl-Bien
Mary Uhl-Bien Texas Christian University

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