The main aim of that paper is to rethinking the connections between complexity and management provoking questions among managers and entrepreneurs, moreover between specialists about consolidated practices of control, governance and predictability. Which compatibility of those practices with...

This dissertation develops and tests a conceptual model to examine how organizations respond to social and political events that can significantly affect operations. The model incorporates concepts from resource dependence and institutional theories, which posit that a firm will develop a range...

This paper analyzes the founding rate of bioengineering departments in the United States. It takes the density dependence model from organizational ecology literature as the starting point of the analysis. This model predicts that founding rates of organizational populations are driven by...

This project extends work toward building strategies to improve the status of technical communication by arguing that shifts in product development processes, such as the current shift in software development from waterfall to iterative methods, open gaps for technical communicators to take...

Research has perennially substantiated the belief that experience is a crucial determinant of an officer’s ability to effectively use discretion in making decisions. Officers cite experience as “the best teacher”, and police managers are likely to agree, usually with an anecdote or two...