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No / The advent of the Internet and e-commerce in the mid-to-late 20th century, has been instrumental in changing the landscape of the business environment. This has led to new management approaches and practices, mediated by advances in technology that are revolutionizing the workplace and continue to impact organizational structures and strategies. In this paper, we develop a taxonomy for IT and organizational theory from which we identify a pressing need for a conceptualisation of this rapid development in technology and its impact on organizational form. We introduce the concept of the e-environment to define the new and problem domain in which organizations are now operating as a consequence, particularly, of new technologies and the Internet. We explain how as the complexity of the technology increases, the ability to manage and appropriately exploit this e-environment under a traditional organizational form becomes more difficult. Currently, organizations are in the process of re-structuring to address this issue and facilitate continued strategic technological take-up to remain competitive. We posit the need for developing suitable organizational forms comprising both functional and technological specialists. We argue that the resulting forms are best explained by an extended model that can be seen as a composite of the existing forms. Finally, we present an executive reporting structure that will provide long-term top-level support for organizational decision making to manage the dynamic domain that is the e-environment. The advent of the Internet and e-commerce in the mid-to-late 20th century, has been instrumental in changing the landscape of the business environment. This has led to new management approaches and practices, mediated by advances in technology that are revolutionizing the workplace and continue to impact organizational structures and strategies. In this paper, we develop a taxonomy for IT and organizational theory from which we identify a pressing need for a conceptualisation of this rapid development in technology and its impact on organizational form. We introduce the concept of the e-environment to define the new and problem domain in which organizations are now operating as a consequence, particularly, of new technologies and the Internet. We explain how as the complexity of the technology increases, the ability to manage and appropriately exploit this e-environment under a traditional organizational form becomes more difficult. Currently, organizations are in the process of re-structuring to address this issue and facilitate continued strategic technological take-up to remain competitive. We posit the need for developing suitable organizational forms comprising both functional and technological specialists. We argue that the resulting forms are best explained by an extended model that can be seen as a composite of the existing forms. Finally, we present an executive reporting structure that will provide long-term top-level support for organizational decision making to manage the dynamic domain that is the e-environment.

This article unpacks the notion of institutional complexity and highlights the distinct sets of challenges confronting hybrid structural arrangements. The framework identifies three factors that contribute to the experience of complexity - namely, the extent to which the prescriptive demands of logics are incompatible, whether there is a settled or widely accepted prioritization of logics within the field, and the degree to which the jurisdictions of the logics overlap. The central thesis is that these "components" of complexity variously combine to produce four distinct institutional landscapes, each with differing implications for the challenges organizations face and for how they might respond. The article explores the situational relevance of an array of hybridizing responses and discusses their implications for organizational legitimacy and performance. It concludes by specifying the boundary conditions of the framework and highlighting fruitful directions for future scholarship.

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The paper examines the application of the concept of economic efficiency to organizational issues of collective information processing in decision making. Information processing is modeled in the framework of the dynamic parallel-processing model of associative computation with an endogenous set-up cost of the processors. The model is extended to include the specific features of collective information processing in the team of decision makers which could cause an error in data analysis. In such a model, the conditions for efficient organization of information processing are defined and the architecture of the efficient structures is considered. We show that specific features of collective decision making procedures require a broader framework for judging organizational efficiency than has traditionally been adopted. In particular, and contrary to the results presented in economic literature, we show that in human data processing (unlike in computer systems), there is no unique architecture for efficient information processing structures, but a number of various efficient forms can be observed. The results indicate that technological progress resulting in faster data processing (ceteris paribus) will lead to more regular information processing structures. However, if the relative cost of the delay in data analysis increases significantly, less regular structures could be efficient. (authors' abstract) / Series: Discussion Papers of the Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience

Submitted by Jorge Silva (jorgelmsilva@ufrrj.br) on 2017-06-23T17:40:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016 - Vanessa Faria Silva.pdf: 2965070 bytes, checksum: 0a53eb4e828e839fea364ac45122dc0a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-23T17:40:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016 - Vanessa Faria Silva.pdf: 2965070 bytes, checksum: 0a53eb4e828e839fea364ac45122dc0a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-29 / CAPES / The financing of cultural projects for a long time, was characterized by reliance on public announcements and private companies. In this scenario, a limited number of projects received financial support, due to factors such as scarcity of resources and lack of appreciation of the cultural sector. However, from technological innovations and enhancement of the Creative Economy, occurred in recent years, changes in the funding dynamics of projects in this area, through crowdfunding platforms. Thus, the creative economy projects now have, in addition to traditional sources of financing, the online crowdfunding platforms as an alternative to request funding. Considering the important role that these platforms are playing in the dynamics of the Creative Economy project financing, and function-dependent manner to advances in Information and Communication Technologies, the present study aimed to analyze the organizational form of crowdfunding platforms available for financing Creative Economy projects in Brazil. For this qualitative research was conducted through the document content analysis and semi-open interviews and other data collected on the Internet. Finally, after analysis of the collected data, it was possible to consider that initially the platforms have a horizontal organizational form, and as they grow adopt vertical organizational models. / O financiamento de projetos culturais, durante muito tempo, se caracterizou pela depend?ncia dos editais p?blicos e de empresas privadas. Nesse cen?rio, uma quantidade limitada de projetos recebiam apoio financeiro, devido a fatores como escassez de recursos e falta de valoriza??o do setor cultural. Entretanto, a partir das inova??es tecnol?gicas e valoriza??o da Economia Criativa, ocorreu, nos ?ltimos anos, mudan?a na din?mica de financiamento dos projetos dessa ?rea, por meio das plataformas crowdfunding. Sendo assim, os projetos de economia criativa passaram a ter, al?m das fontes tradicionais de financiamento, as plataformas de financiamento coletivo online como alternativa para solicitar financiamento. Considerando o importante papel que essas plataformas est?o desempenhando na din?mica de financiamento de projetos da Economia Criativa, e que funcionam de forma dependente aos avan?os das Tecnologias da Informa??o e Comunica??o, a presente pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar a forma organizativa das plataformas crowdfunding dispon?veis para o financiamento de projetos de Economia Criativa no Brasil. Para isso, foi realizada pesquisa qualitativa, por meio da an?lise de conte?do de documentos como entrevistas semiabertas e outros dados coletados na internet. Por fim, ap?s an?lise dos dados coletados, foi poss?vel considerar que inicialmente as plataformas apresentam uma forma organizacional horizontal, sendo que a medida que crescem adotam modelos organizacionais verticais.

Flexible Organisationsformen auf der Grundlage von Unternehmensnetzwerken werden von vielen Autoren als Antwort auf die Herausforderungen der Informationsgesellschaft sowie der sich von der Angebots- zur Nachfrageorientierung wandelnden Märkte gesehen. Nach einer anfänglichen Euphorie scheint nun die Diskussion in eine Phase der Ernüchterung einzutreten. Dabei steigt die Nachfrage nach Konzepten und Werkzeugen zur frühzeitigen Erkennung und Vermeidung von Fehlentwicklungen, die den Erfolg Virtueller Unternehmen (VU) gefährden. Um solche Werkzeuge entwickeln zu können, sind interdisziplinäre Studien bereits bestehender Unternehmenskooperationen notwendig. Dieses Papier schlägt hierfür einen systemtheoretisch fundierten Rahmen vor, der die Grundlage für ein fächerübergreifendes Forschungsdesign zur Untersuchung VU sein kann. Unser Ansatz soll dabei einen Beitrag zur Operationalisierung des Konzeptes der virtuellen Unternehmung leisten und Gestaltungshinweise für ein Frühwarnsystem für VU liefern.

The thesis titled Possibilities and limits of work with motivation of pupils with ADHD and ADD syndrome at first degree of primary school specializes in finding effective motivation of these pupils. In the theoretical part of the thesis will be defined notions of motivation, ADHD and ADD, teaching methods, organizational forms, evaluating the relationship between teacher and pupil. It will also be a sub-analysis of individual concepts and relationships between them. Processed theoretical background will be taken into account in the practical part. The practical part will pick out the most effective way of motivating pupils with ADD and ADHD syndrome integrated in the regular classroom at primary school. The research methods will be used direct and participant observation, case study, analysis of pupils' projects. Key words: motivation, ADHD, ADD, teaching methods, organizational forms, assessment, teacher-pupil relationship

The thesis illustrates the emergence and development of the types of symbolic capital, networks and fields used by the rulers of Easter Island in their exercise of power, and what possible consequences they may have for their habitus. There is no concrete conclusion, but it is possible to see reasonable course of events, where the archaeological finds form the milestones, and it is possible to trace the formation and expansion of a field, created from material assets, inventions, social thoughts and actions. There are signs of variation, or different phases, in the field, over time. The rulers seem to have tried to control the field by, for example, building monuments, such as ahu and statues, or in other words, the authorities of Easter Island managed to create different types of assets. In addition, various organizational forms, sacred places and buildings, taboos and traditions have been used in the form of ceremonies, rituals and sacrifices of various kinds. This symbolic capital has been used by the rulers to steer residents' work and striving in the desired direction, and to create a habitus that everyone feels involved in. This habitus has probably changed when new businesses entered the market.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to find out which teaching / learning methods and forms teachers use in their biology lessons and its impact on attractiveness of biology for pupils. The adjoing aims are to find out which factors influence teacher's choice of teaching / learning methods and forms, which teaching / learning methods and forms are unused and the causes of their non-use. Another adjoing aim is to determinate if there is a difference in biology lessons between lower grammar schools and primary schools. Furhermore, the adjoing aims are to compare not only the attractiveness of biology but also the popularity of teaching methods and forms by pupils of lower grammar schools and primary schools. The thesis first contains the theoretical part. The research part contains the metodology of data collection and the metodology of evaluation of these data. Furthermore this thesis contains the results of the research. The results show that monology and autodidactic teaching methods and forms predominate in biology lessons. Teachers are limited by various obstacles such as lack of time, materiál equipment of the school, the approach of colleagues and school management, different approach of pupils, approach of the teacher. For primary school pupils biology is more popular than for lower grammar...