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Hyperloop transportation technologies: practices for open organizing across VUCA contexts

, complex, ambiguous (VUCA) contexts. These open organizations must respond to changing political, competitive, and socio-economic events. Structural clarity is more difficult, and contributors may ... organizational forms that try to replace the ‘implicit political power’ infused in traditional hierarchy-based structures. Nonetheless, as pointed out also by Bernstein et al. (2016), 3 We are grateful to one of

On the strategic value of equifinal choice

of organizational members to a superordinate goal and the plurality of goals leads political processes to guide the firm’s strategy. Extant view has identified random choice as an unbiased, fair ... leads political processes to take center stage and guide the future of their firms (Levinthal and Rerup 2021; Bridoux and Stoelhorst 2022) . As uncertainty subsides, superordinate goals can emerge and

What do you mean by organizational structure? Acknowledging and harmonizing differences and commonalities in three prominent perspectives

allocation are the result of a political negotiation process (Albert 2018; Bidwell 2012; Keum 2023; Pfeffer 1981; Pfeffer and Salancik 1974) . Hence, this perspective may help understand the role of ... arrangement of activities and decisions with respect to changing the composition of legal entities. For example, political power of executives has been argued and shown to affect division reorganization

Designing inclusive organizational identities

organizations that are not perceived as inclusive, as evidenced in cases of shareholder proposals and consumer boycotts over organizations’ political activities or public claims (Davis 2020; Ginder and Kwon 2020 ... employees seek opportunities for more personal expression in the workplace (Cha et al. 2019) and place demands on their organizations and their leaders to make pronouncements on social and political issues

Sticking to their Guns: The Missing RMA for Cybersecurity

Revolution in ‎Military Affairs (RMA) concept of Security Studies and the paradigm shift concept of philosophy of science. Security Studies theory, philosophy of science and empirical evidence all suggest that ... ) . Cyberwarfare is raging at homeland: cyber-attacks have hit power production, financial services, numerous industries and political processes. Despite decades of threat awareness, leading technology, superior

Expanding the organizational design space: the emergence of AI robot bosses

the philosophy of unsupervised learning . Philos Technol 36 ( 2 ): 28 Weber M ( 2019 ) Economy and society: a new translation . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA Wesche JS , Sonderegger A ( 2019

Harnessing self-management to tackle grand challenges: the points-based participation architecture of São Paulo’s housing movement

in São Paulo, Brazil, the low-income families served by the SMOs, and the political establishment that the SMOs seek to influence. In São Paulo, the fourth most populous city in the world and one of ... SMOs is therefore a necessary condition to develop and maintain an image of credibility, sustain campaigns in support of their goals, and leverage political opportunities (McAdam and Paulsen 1993

Adventure of Reading: Literature and Philosophy, Cavell and Beauvoir

Oxford University Press 2011; all rights reserved 1 James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Professor of English, Philosophy, and Theatre Studies , Director , Center for Philosophy ... pre-existing philosophy on the literary text? Turning first to the work of Stanley Cavell, then to Simone de Beauvoir's often neglected accounts of reading, this essay shows that such a philosophical

Designing human resource management systems in the age of AI

, highly cognitively complex decisions typically have strategic, long-term implications within organizations, human involvement may still be needed to alleviate political conflicts (e.g., HR professionals

Fit for solving the grand challenges? From organization design choices to ecosystem solutions

in addressing grand challenges. Like MNCs, the UN has locally embedded offices, but the global vision prevails. Its social mission paired with global legitimacy requires political and rules-based ... new political role of business in a globalized world: a review of a new perspective on CSR and its implications for the firm, governance, and democracy . J Manage Stud 48 ( 4 ): 899 - 931 . https

Constructing M&A valuation: how do merger evaluation methods differ as uncertainty and controversy vary?

We investigate the idea that firms’ choices of M&A evaluation methods are influenced by two socio-political factors that arise in the behavioral theory of the firm—uncertainty and controversy. In ... one does not do so. Second, scholars who do regularly engage with the idea of socio-political processes and are intrigued with determining how social constructs such as uncertainty and controversy will

NFT-enabled organization design: prospects, promises and hurdles

allocation, NFTs enable meritocratic principles by matching knowledge and skills to open tasks regardless of employee characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, or political beliefs. Therefore, organizations

Organization design challenges: results from a practitioner survey

the organization, (3) handling political aspects of the re-design process and helping participants “see the bigger picture” (as opposed to “protecting their own turf”), and (4) evaluating whether the ... the survey Interpretation The tendency to “protect one’s own turf” reminds us that organizational re-design is—or may deteriorate into—a political process. One consequence is that participants may

Playfulness, ideology and the technology of foolishness in the creation of a novel market niche for distributed control: The case of iPLON

Distributed control is a technology and a design philosophy that, albeit superior to centralized control, cannot spread because it would require restructuring existing industries. It survives ... networks with local authorities and other system integrators that apparently transfered the philosophy of distributed control into the social realm. None of us participated to the ISCOM project, but we have

Hypergaming for Cyber: Strategy for Gaming a Wicked Problem

cyberrelated interactions such as OCO, DCO, CNE, ISR, EW, IO, and a host of other operations, security, political, and social climes. In any event, hypergames are iterative and tend to sprout into new and ... hypergame philosophy of unknown and incomplete information. “Information age warfare is characterized by rapid evolution, and all indications at this stage are that the capacity for lateral evolution will

Military Cyber Professionals Have an Important Part to Play in the Obama-Trump Transition

involves a new political party. In this respect, the current transition from the Obama to the Trump administration is no different. While this periodic exercise of our democracy may seem disruptive to some ... service, I have experienced multiple presidential transitions. Each new Commander in Chief updates policies, personnel, and priorities…especially when the transition involves a new political party. In this

Defensive Industrial Policy: Cybersecurity Interventions to Reduce Intellectual Property Theft

Center for Security and Emerging Technology (Zwetsloot et al., 2021), China produced 46 percent more Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) engineering graduates than the United States in 2019 and is expected to ... , 1997). Since Confucian philosophy is inherently collectivist, it is perhaps unsurprising that individual property rights would not be emphasized within China. Moreover, Marron and Steel (2000) identify

Designing chief innovation officer positions: a strategic contingency framework

can be supported effectively. Participants often mentioned that the CIO’s position operates in a political environment, and that the CIO had limited formal authority and resources. Political ... dominating allocation of innovation budgets through their likely higher positional power—a political phenomenon that was mentioned in the roundtable discussions more than once. Because support of business unit

A new perspective on: evolutionary processes and organizational adaptation

- 400 Campbell DT ( 1974 ) Evolutionary epistemology . In: Schilpp PA (ed) The philosophy of Karl R . Popper. Open Court Publishers, LaSalle, IL Darwin C ( 1859 ) On the origin of species by means of

People's War in Cyberspace: Using China's Civilian Economy in the Information Domain

auxiliary capabilities and assesses how China uses its civilian economy as a “strategic reserve” in all four areas of the Information Domain. [1] US Naval War College, “China and Cybersecurity: Political ... , and media operations to degrade the political will of China’s opponents without resorting to kinetic force.5 As part of this effort, China has identified the Information Domain as being the strategic