Business organizations as living beings

Living as Languaging: Distributed Knowledge in Living Beings

We trace life at different levels of organization and/or description to the cohabitation of individuals within and between historically established lineages. Ways of such cohabitation depend on experience of particular guilds or aggregates; they cannot be easily foretold from any basic level of description, they are distributed across all levels, and across all members of the community. Such ph...

Characteristics of Living Beings

The Relations of Living Beings

I N the preceding essays* we have considered the relations of living beings to space (as revealed to us by Palreontology) and to timeas shown us by organic geography. The inter-relations of living creatures, as enemies, as rivals, and as involuntary helpers, constitute 1\ third department of Hexicologyt not less interesting than the two others already treated of. There is one very general inter...

Potency of Melatonin in Living Beings

Living beings are surrounded by various changes exhibiting periodical rhythms in environment. The environmental changes are imprinted in organisms in various pattern. The phenomena are believed to match the external signal with organisms in order to increase their survival rate. The signals are categorized into circadian, seasonal, and annual cycles. Among the cycles, the circadian rhythm is re...

Operational Business-IT Misalignment as stress factor for Organizations

Alignment between business and IT functions is a critical yet unsolved problem of many organizations. Despite considerable amount of research devoted to address this issue, the quest for alignment remains challenging, particularly in light of the rapid and widespread digitization of the business world. This paper argues that a research-practice gap exists in the alignment field, and that academ...