The purpose in this series of papers is to examine different perspectives on the evolution of the process of collaboration and the management challenges therein by focusing on a single case experience. The literature on alliance and collaboration has grown immensely in the last few years. Much...

A dynamical system of infinite volume and of infinite number of identical interacting particles occupying energy levels ei(i=1,2,…,I) has been constructed as the limit of an infinite sequence of finite, equivalent systems of increasing size and particle number. Systems both in equilibrium and...

In this paper the author questions the idea of divisionalization as a clear-cut organizational configuration of structural elements ready to be adopted and smoothly implemented in almost any kind of business or public organization, given certain objective situational criteria. The research...