pt. 1. Organizational adaptation to a changing social and technological environment : the hazard of dissonant practitioner and managerial responses -- pt. 2. One horse, many drivers : the complexity of interorganizational collaboration.

The premise of organization as thirdness -- The frame game, and how communication establishes and distributes organizational authority -- Language as both meaning and action -- Text as the constitutive basis of organization -- The accounts of a business, or perhaps rather the business of...

Random variables are constructed for a Bellman-Harris branching process which are the extensions of backward and forward recurrence times from an ordinary renewal process. The sum of the two extended random variables is also constructed, and then the distribution functions for all three random...

Under a Bellman-Harris age-dependent branching process, a parent lives a random length of time and at death produces a random number of offspring. The parent lifetimes have the common cumulative distribution G([dot operator]) and the number of offspring per parent has a common probability...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the problem of reconfiguring epistemic boundaries and the authority relationships that these boundaries represent in corporate R&D. The authors focus the analysis on the mediation of this reconfiguration by project management tools,...