Organizations are complex adaptive systems in symbiosis with increasingly challenging, competitive and demanding environments. As a result, they face developments and demands based on increasingly information-based, knowledge-driven and service intensive economies. This requires speed,...

The Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University had its inception in 1998. For the last 10 years,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during...