The notion of 'organization activation' was first developed in the field of the Japanese style organization development in the 1970s. In this paper, we propose a definition of the activated state of the organization and provide a framework by applying the results of a mathematical theory of...

This book adopts the decision theoretic viewpoint in the organization design problems in management and organization theory. The first part considers a short-run adaptive process in the organization. The organization design is represented by a combination of the organization structure and the...