An organization, by its most basic definition, is an assembly of people working together to achieve common objectives through a division of labor. An organization provides a means of using individual ...

Open system theory is a biological theory that has been adapted to business organizational structure theories. It may seem odd that biology has anything to do with business, but the theory recognizes ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Studies on societal path dependencies tend to focus on mechanisms that anchor and stabilize national trajectories while paying less attention ...

At first, a small-business owner typically juggles everything. If all goes well, the company grows, finally demanding organization. Somehow all its parts must be arranged to work as a unified whole -- ...