In times of continuous changes, enforced through globalization and networking, organizations face the need both to react quickly to experienced or occurring changes, and to act pro-actively to foreseen developments. An effective way for organizations to act and react is to model the business at the process level and to re-construct or rearrange this representation according to the needs for dyn...

Mission performance is likely to be high when organizational structures are “congruent” with the mission and degraded when organizational structures are “incongruent” with the mission. All else being equal, it is to an organization’s advantage to monitor the fit between its structure and mission, and to alter its structure when a misfit is identified. We afforded teams the opportunity to adapt ...

Inter-organizational co-operation among networks of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is seen as an opportunity for these companies to hold their ground under the increased competition caused by global markets [1]. For the analysis of this complex topic the Institute of Computer Science and Social Studies (IIG) of the University of Freiburg, Germany, developed a theoretical, hypotheses-...

Introduction In the last five years, there has been an explosion of articles about, and interest in, the learning organization. Clearly the concept has caught the imagination of writers on management and of many managers themselves. This is not surprising for it is clear from a range of research around the world that many contemporary organizations are faced with unprecedented environmental cha...

stress, as an inevitable and indispensible reality of modern time, has a multitude of positive and negative effects on the physical and psychological health of man and survival and development of organizations. therefore, the precise and timely identification of stressors and a readiness to prevent and cope with them is a great task of men and organizations at the twenty- first century. with th...

With organizational environments becoming increasingly complex and volatile, the concept of “organizational resilience” has become “new normal”. Organizational resilience is a multidimensional which builds on myriad capabilities that an organization develops during its lifecycle. As learning inherent essential part these developments, it central theme in literature resilience. Although are inhe...

This study examines how the first users of the X-Window system, the administrative staff at MIT's Project Athena, coped with this complex new technology. By examining their use of customization files over a period of six months, we were able to track how they responded to both organizational and technological changes. We found clear evidence of co-adaptation: individuals both adapted to the new...