One of the major problems of managerial behavior is the setting of priorities.Time is a scarce resource and managers have to find ways to deal with the multiple tasksthat face them. This paper addresses the issue of priority-setting among tasks bymanagers by proposing analogies from job-shop...

Technological systems are shaped both by forces arising from the technical environmentof product markets and those arising from the institutional environment ofcompatibility standards. We explore how it might be possible for standards to simultaneouslyenable activities in the technical...

Manufacturing flexibility is critical for survival in industries characterizedby rapid change and diverse product markets. Although newmanufacturing technologies make it possible to accomplish flexibility,their potential remains unrealized by firms whose organizationalelements do not possess...

Today's industrial landscape is characterized by rapid change and systemic technologies. Rapidchange results in ever shorter product life cycles that demand continual innovation from firms.The systemic nature of technologies makes it difficult, if not impossible, for any one firm tomanufacture...

Virtual organizations are new organizational forms comprising a set ofnetwork transactions that differ from those found in markets andhierarchies. This paper explores the nature of these network transactionsthrough an in-depth study of a virtual firm. The virtual organization ischaracterized by...

Several key technologies are converging tocreate the emerging cyberspace. Wecharacterize this convergence process as oneof cumulative synthesis and suggest that thenetwork mode of organization is the mostappropriate for facilitating convergence