To date, most network research contains one or more of five major problems. First, it tends to
be atheoretical, ignoring the various social theories that contain network implications …

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interested in organizational communication... It is a unique and outstanding work …

Scholars increasingly theorize about the power of communication to organize and structure
social collectives. However, two factors threaten to impede research on these theories …

This chapter summarizes the state of theory and research in organizational communication.
The authors highlight the central concerns and major challenges addressed by …

This study focuses on the initial conditions of work teams and the impacts of these conditions
on the development of teams' transactive memory (TM) systems through computational …

The introduction or new communication and information technologies in work communities
has primarily been used to crete new channels of communication andℜ the cost or …

Validation of complex simulation models is a challenging problem in computational
organization theory research. In this paper, we describe a validation strategy suitable for …

Computer-based simulation models of business processes offer a powerful mechanism for
modelling organizational structures and arriving at informed recommendations for change …

Since the 1980s, there has been considerable popular and academic interest in self-
organizing systems theory (Prigogine & Stengers, 1984) and chaos theory (Gleick, 1987) …

Designing organizational structures can be a complex and demanding task, one that can be
greatly assisted by the use of carefully developed models. In this paper we investigate the …