abstract purpose - the aim of this paper is to describe the population ecology theory through fractal thinking, an emergent human operating system that is creative, adaptive, healthy, and evolutionary; furthermore, a parallel is drawn between the population ecology model and the fractal structure. top-down hierarchies are typically characterized by command and control systems of the authority t...

This article examines why organizations struggle with learning how to prevent discrimination against their employees with disabilities. To explore this issue, qualitative archival data were collected and analyzed from 53 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuits filed against 44 organizations. Theoretical analysis of the qualitative data suggests that several organizationally based learnin...

INTRODUCTION Organizations constantly face a dynamic environment where time constraint, external stress, and internal stress all require organizations to respond both quickly and accurately in order to survive (Aldrich 1979; Perrow 1984; Scott 1987). Though the common knowledge is that more complex organizations are more costly, there are debates over whether complexity/redundancy in organizati...

The Chemical Organization Theory (COT) is an abstract reaction network model that has a deep connection to autopoiesis as they share the same central topic: Organization. The main characteristic of autopoietic systems is that they preserve their own organization; this constitutes their identity. In terms of COT, organizations are special reaction networks which are closed and self-maintaining. ...

Dynamics of IT support organizations can be quite complex to analyze. We introduce a prototype visualization tool that exploits similarities of support organizations with social networks. Our tool borrows techniques from social network visualization and analysis to help IT manager better understand dynamics of their organization in the incident management process.