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- the body of research and knowledge concerning organizations. Organization theory originally focused primarily on the organization as a unit, as opposed to organization behavior, which explored individual and group behavior...
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- Communications in Managing Project Organizations
- The purpose of the organizational theory is to discuss the systematic study of organizations by scholars. Concepts are obtained from living ongoing organizations. It helps people understand, diagnose, and respond to organizational needs and problems. Organizations are social entities that are goal directed, deliberately structured activity systems with a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- The Evolution Of Management And Organization Theory
- The paper traces the history of management. The concept of management evolved because of the need for public management in ancient cities. An organization is a social entity consisting of a group of people working towards common goal. The organization theory spells out the dynamics of these groups in different...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Chemical Organization Theory As A Theoretical Base For Chemical Computing
- In chemical computing, the result of a computation appears as an emergent global behavior based on local reaction rules. For programming chemical systems a theoretical method to cope with that emergent behavior is desired. This paper demonstrates how the chemical organization theory can help in designing and understanding chemical computing...
- White papers 2005-11-14
- Managers in the Context of Strategic Content: Industrial Organization Theory and Resource-Based View Predictions for the Selection of Managers
- This paper analyzes if managers are recruited by matching their background with strategy requirements. The prediction power of existing industrial organization theory hypotheses and developed resource-based view hypotheses are tested on a sample of Swedish top managers. Results show that individual variables, such as an individual's demographic similarity to the...
- White papers 2001-05-01
- Strategy Making And Evolutionary Organization Theory: Insights From Longitudinal Process Research
- This paper proposes that strategy-making processes can be fruitfully integrated with evolutionary organization theory. An evolutionary research lens comprising three interrelated conceptual frameworks helps identify and analyze the role of strategy making in firm evolution at three levels of analysis: (company-environment interface, company, and intra-company. Longitudinal field-based research of Intel...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Disaster management.(Organization at the Limit: Lessons from the Columbia Disaster)(Book review)
- William H. Starbuck and Moshe Farjoun, eds. 2005. Organization at the Limit: Lessons from the Columbia Disaster. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. 387 pp. Publication of this collection of essays--where a number of organization theorists examine the NASA Columbia space shuttle accident in 2003--is...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- The Place of Spirituality in Organizational Theory
- Spirituality in the American work-place has been receiving increasing attention by the popular literature. However, the issue has received little consideration from management scholars. Although there are several definitions of spirituality, this paper discusses it as a cultural phenomenon that might influence organizational behavior. The investigation of spirituality in the...
- White papers 2004-10-22
- Management Theory And The Environment
- Environmental ethics and business have a close relationship. Ethics consists of moral guidelines as to what is right and what is wrong for the organization. Corporate Social Responsibility CSR spells out an organization's commitment towards society and is a measure of the organization's social responsiveness. The CSR principles must be...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Impact of Past Crises on Current Crisis Communication: Insights From Situational Crisis Communication Theory
- Previous research based on Situational Crisis Communication Theory SCCT suggests that an organization's past crises history affects the reputational threat posed by a current crisis when that crisis results from intentional acts by the organization. The study reported on in this paper provides a wider test of crisis history to...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Simulating Environment Contingencies Using Simvision
- In product development life cycle, specifically the facility development life cycle, utilization of tacit knowledge is critical during the earlier Feasibility and Entitlements phases. Tacit knowledge is the 'know how' that is not explicitly available to an enterprise. In order to inform organizational design, a computational organization theory tool is...
- White papers 2004-08-02
- Herzberg's theory.(ANSWERS TO YOUR TECHNICAL QUESTIONS)(Frederick Irving Herzberg)(Viewpoint essay)(Brief article)
- Q: How far can we apply Herzberg's two-factory theory in our apparel manufacturing organization? Q: How far can we apply Herzberg's two-factory theory in our apparel manufacturing organization?
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Putting IT Theory Into Practice
- The advent of Information Technology IT has resulted in the organization of management and optimization of IT resources like networks, PCs, databases, and Unix servers in an organization. However, of late the trend has changed. The Chief Information Officer CIO of an organization focuses on strategies that are less technology-driven...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Entrepreneurship And The Economic Theory Of The Firm
- Though they developed in isolation, the theory of entrepreneurship and the economic theory of the firm can be usefully integrated. In particular, the concept of entrepreneurship as judgment associated with Knight and some Austrian school economists aligns naturally with the theory of the firm. Because judgment cannot be purchased on...
- White papers 2004-08-17
- A Unified Theory of Market Partitioning: An Integration of Resource-Partitioning and Sunk Cost Theories
- This paper's objective is to integrate sociology's and economics' theories of market partitioning into a unifying framework: Glenn Carroll's resource-partitioning and John Sutton's sunk cost theories, respectively. In so doing, two important theory fragments from organizational ecology and industrial organization are integrated in an attempt to understand the antecedents and...
- White papers 2003-06-26
- Coordination and control in a government agency: contingency and institutional theory perspectives on GAO audits - General Accounting Office - includes appendices
- Several theories have been used to explain differences in the rationalized, formal structures of organizations that are used to coordinate and control their members. Two of the most prominent theories, contingency theory and institutional theory, take almost opposite approaches to understanding the factors that lead to the development of different...
- Research articles 1994-06-01
- International Standards Organization
- The Internationa Standards Organization ISO has adopted the SKF Life Theory in ISO 281. This follows the adoption of the SKF Life Theory in Germany by DIN ad DIN ISO 281, Beiblatt 1 and 4, in 2004.
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- The Strategic Dynamics of Total Quality Management: A Grounded Theory Research Study
- The aim of this article is to describe the development of total quality management TQM models using a grounded theory research methodology where a key part of the methodology is a longitudinal study. The models seek to capture the development of quality within organizations over time and thus to contribute...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- The Use of Grounded Theory as a Knowledge Development Tool
- Grounded Theory GT is a systematic approach to generating theory from data obtained through social science research. Knowledge management KM is a systematic approach for ordering corporate data to achieve sustained optimal performance in an organization. This paper examines the extent to which GT is an effective tool in the...
- White papers
- HOW DO THEY STACK UP? THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT AND THE MANAGEMENT LITERATURE
- The editor asked contributors to this symposium to make connections between "organization theory" and the assembly of facts, interpretations, and recommendations that is The 9/11 Commission Report. The connections could run from the report to the theory-any theories supported or undermined here?-or from theory, and the empirical literature, to the...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- The International Organization and Enforcement of Labor Standards
- What action should be taken by international community with regard to labor standards, how should this action be organized, and by what means should it be enforced? The purpose of this paper is to provide answers to these three questions. Taking the perspective of economic theory, the paper describes here...
- White papers 2001-05-01
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