The conceptual organization: an emergent organizational form for collaborative R&D

The Choice of Organizational Form for Collaborative Innovation

It is commonplace for firms to collaborate with others to gain access to technological components for innovation. This paper examines the choice of organizational form for such activities: when should a firm hire a technological expert as a temporary employee, transact through consulting spot markets, or engage in a long-term employment or supply relationship with the expert? Property rights th...

An Interpretive-emergent-holistic Approach for Collaborative Governance an Interpretive-emergent-holistic Approach for Collaborative Governance

In this paper, we intend to propose a novel pathway for achieving systems thinking—a prerequisite for strategic management—in the context of collaborative governance. This novel pathway, namely an interpretive-emergent-holistic approach, is grounded in complex adaptive systems framework and aimed at leveraging the computational power of today’s information technology in providing rigorous, syst...

Identifying Partners And Organizational Logical Structures For Collaborative Conceptual Design

Recently much interest has been devoted to novel distributed approaches which lead to the formation of collaborative networked organizations, e.g. virtual organizations, specifically oriented to generate an innovative product concept . Making use of logical-formal structures based on concepts related to directed hypergraphs, we formally represent competitive inter-organization and collaborative...

Growing Systems in an Emergent Organization

Organization of the Haemophilus influenzae Rd genome.

We present the first complete map of the Haemophilus influenzae genome, consisting of a detailed restriction map with a number of genetic loci. All of the ApaI, SmaI, and RsrII restriction sites (total of 45 sites) were mapped by Southern blot hybridization analysis of fragments separated by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Cloned genes were placed on the restriction map by Southern hybridizat...