The contracting process is a crucial step in alliance development and its success. However, the existing literature reveals surprisingly little investigation into how organizational learning relates to the process of ...

The use of object technology (OT) has been highly successful for many software development companies, yet there are still a large number of organizations who have not yet adopted OT. For those companies currently adopting ...

Organization-oriented analysis acts as the key step and foundation in building organization-oriented methodology (OOM) to engineer multi-agent systems especially open complex agent systems (OCAS). A number of existing ...

Management Theory and Organization Studies have promoted a series of representations, that have pervaded management thought and shaped managers actions. These have changed radically during the past century, and any ...

Australian unions have adopted new organizing methods to rebuild and develop their organizations. This represents a change in direction from the commitment to partnership and tripartite planning that characterized the ...

Surprise, surprise, it is the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), the trade union notorious throughout the world for being ¿useless,¿ that has taken on Wal-Mart and succeeded in setting up workplace union branches. ...

The cubic hyperpolarizabilities of the zero-generation dendrimers 1¿3 and related first generation dendrimers have been assessed over the spectral range 520¿1600 nm using the Z-scan technique and ~150 fs pulses. The complexes ...

Feature extraction is an effective step in data mining and machine learning. While many feature extraction methods have been proposed for clustering, classification and regression, very limited work has been done on ...