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

What is it about the term "design" that facilitates the emergence of interdisciplinary interactions even though the term may hold different meanings for those involved? To address this question, we analyzed the vocabularies, practices and orders of worth proposed by the members of an...