The paper presents a systems view of the organizational preconditions to technological accidents and disasters, and in particular the seminal ``Man-made Disasters model'' proposed by the late Professor Barry Turner. Events such as Chernobyl, the Challenger and Bhopal have highlighted the fact that in seeking the causes of many modern large-scale accidents we must now consider as key the interac...

Various terms such as organizational mortality, organizational death, bankruptcy, decline, retrenchment and failure have been used in the literature to characterize different forms and facets of organizational crisis. Communication network studies have typically focused on nodes (individuals or organizations), relationships between those nodes, and subsequent affects of these relationships upon...

BACKGROUND Organizational performance can be attributed to a number of factors. However, there are certain organizational factors, the presence or absence of which can determine the success or failure of the organization. There are different ways in which organizations try to improve their performance by working on such factors. In the research presented in this article, an attempt is made to f...

Organizational silence is defined as the lack of effective interactions among staff and it stands opposite to the concept of organizational voice. In the present research, the purpose is to measure the silence behavior among the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) staff before and after the implementation of a comprehensive suggestion system. A suggestion system is an internal struc...

understanding various aspects of the problems, challenges and constraints of agricultural activities such as mushroom ventures and trying to plan and policy for solving problems are suitable strategies for developing agri– businesses. the purpose of this qualitative study was to explain the challenges and constraints of developing mushroom venturesin kermanshah province. information were collec...

This study seeks to explain how and why manufacturing cells evolve over time. The purpose is to prevent many of the cellular manufacturing failures reported in industry. We conclude that manufacturing cells go through, somewhat overlapping, evolutionary stages before they begin to perform at the optimal level. It is important to recognize these evolutionary stages because they must be properly ...

The thesis critically examines discursive construction of 'organizational culture' and 'user involvement' in academia and in the information technology (IT) artifact product development industry. IT artifacts are perceived as texts that are written by the writer-designers and afterwards read by the reader-users. User involvement explored is indirect; 'user surrogates' labeled as usability speci...

Dynamic coordination may become compromised due to several nonindependent factors, including a reduced ability to generate oscillations and synchrony, neurotransmitter and receptor excesses and reductions, anatomical and cellular changes that impair connectivity at local and global scales, and changes in gene expression that stem from primary genetic or environmental causes. This chapter presen...