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Organisms and Organization

Biological Theory, 2008
Organisms are organized both internally and externally. The centrality of the organism in examination of the hierarchy of biological organization and the kinds of “emergent properties” that develop from study of organization at one level relative to other levels are my themes.
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The organizers and the organized

Reviews in Anthropology, 1974
Bryan R. Roberts. Organizing Strangers: Poor Families in Guatemala City. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973. xviii + 360 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $12.50.
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The Organization of Organ Procurement

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 1989
The American organ procurement system has improved and matured in the last five years. At the same time, the basic challenges facing it have remained substantially the same because the moral and legal framework of the system has not changed. Success at organ procurement continues to depend on the voluntary cooperation of medical professionals and the ...
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Markets, Organizations, and Organization

2018
Formal organizations and markets constitute the basic forms of the economy. In social science a sharp distinction has usually been made between these forms, even treating them as opposites, and the study of them has been concentrated in different disciplines. We argue that such a perspective is rarely useful.
Mats Jutterström, Nils Brunsson
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Modularity and reliability in the organization of organisms

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 1992
An organism persists only if it satisfies internal and external constraints. Within the organism networks of processes meet the constraints. In such networks a principle of matching often obtains: the pattern of coupling among processes matches the correlation among constraints.
Jay E. Mittenthal, Bertrand Clarke
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Organizing Safety in Security Organizations

2016
Safety and security are often regarded as two separate concepts, both scientifically and organizationally. Both are often seen as two fundamentally conflicting institutional demands and their agendas as being based on two profoundly different organizing principles.
James M. Nyce, Gwendolyn C.H. Bakx
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Organization and Self-Organization

1992
A systemic approach to organizational theory is discussed on the basis of self-organization theory. Organizations are conceived of as nonlinear systems characterized by microscopic complexity, circular causality and openness to their psycho-social environments.
E. J. Brunner, Wolfgang Tschacher
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Symbiosis in Organizations and Organizing

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012
In prior research the definitions and theoretical uses of symbiosis have been imprecise and misspecified in the strategic management literature with many terms relating to symbiosis used interchang...
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ORGAN

Music and Letters, 1960
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Defining Organisms by Organization

The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 2005
Samuel B. Condic, Maureen L. Condic
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