industrial organizations are complex systems` where the interactions among the various functions such as sales, distribution, manufacturing, materials, finance, human resources and maintenance have to be man-aged towards a common purpose of delivering the customers satisfaction. however, since most of these or-ganizations have a `functional structure`, each function or department works towards ...

Thus far the articles in series JOD calls “Organization Zoo” have employed notion of a “zoo” metaphorically to describe an array human institutions. Here we take term literally consider design most complex organizations living world beside those humans, favorite insect zoos around world: ant colonies. We individuality and group identity functioning organizations; advantages flat organization wi...

Organizations can be modeled as complex systems. Here we consider complex economic organizations such as the stock exchange and show that the Kuramoto equation is a suitable model to forecast maxima or minima of the financial signals.

The urban development process displays regressive tacit-dominant knowledge areas and their tacit level would impede their movements during multi-level knowledge transfers among stakeholders. The accuracy of a knowledge may be distorted when recipient stakeholders fail to understand a specific knowledge for its purpose. Earlier studies by the authors had highlighted complex yet dynamic environme...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine the manner in which employees access, create and share information and knowledge within a complex supply chain with a view to better understanding how to identify and manage barriers which may inhibit such exchanges. Design/methodology/approach – An extensive literature review combined with an in-depth case study analysis identified a range o...

This paper considers the general problem of function estimation with a modular approach of neural computing. We propose to use functionally independent subnetworks to learn complex functions. Thus, function approximation is decomposed and amounts to estimate different elementary sub-functions rather than the whole function with a single network. This modular decomposition is a way to introduce ...

To efficiently realize a specified goal in a distributive fashion, there needs to be an appropriate "division of labor," This is true for distributi \E~ algori thms that take advantage of the concurrent features of the ne~ generation of computers. This is true in the design of a complex organization intended to realize a specified goal. The problem is to determine what is the appropriate divisi...