David Walker

This paper investigates theoretical micro-foundations of core competencies in the organization that pursues sustainable competitive advantage. It advocates that there is a lack...

Innovation involves a set of processes which support the production and transformation of knowledge into new processes, technologies and products, goods and services, and provide...

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), as a major sector of the economy, have unique characteristics in terms of organisational and financial structures; reflecting the...

Financing is one of the most critical boundaries for the establishment and growth of a Small and Medium-sized Enterprise: SME (Moore, 1993). This chapter describes traditional...

This paper investigates theoretical micro-foundations of core competencies in the organization that pursues sustainable competitive advantage. It advocates that there is a lack...

This paper proposes the features of future industrial organizations in order to provide them with the abilities to manage high levels of environmental complexity in the 21st...

Organizational cognition concerns the processes which provide agents and organizations with the ability to learn, make decisions, and solve problems. Organizational and...

The practice of organizing is ancient, but formal study of organizations is relatively new. The search for knowledge on organizations through scientific methods of investigation...

This chapter presents rationale for a theory of organizational cognition on the basis of contingency theory and bounded rationality concepts. According to the bounded rationality...

Chapter III introduces definitions, premises, and propositions towards a theory of organizational cognition. It proposes principles about organizational cognition and thus it...

This chapter outlines rationale for cognitive machines. It connects theories of bounded rationality of Herbert Simon with theories of fuzzy systems of Lotfi Zadeh in order to...

This chapter presents principles of cognitive machines. It presents definitions of intelligence, cognition, autonomy, and complexity for machines. It proposes a definition of...

This chapter is concerned with the design of cognitive machines. These machines and their models were chosen in order to increase and to improve: i. The degree of cognition of...

This chapter introduces analyses of cognitive machines and perspectives about their participation in organizations. Therefore, it connects cognitive machines with the discipline...

This chapter presents the organization1 of study and the research methods selected for its investigation. It explains the scope, the purpose, and the motivations for this...

This chapter is concerned with the implementation of The Capability Maturity Model in the organization of study. In this application, we define measures of organization process...

Chapter X is concerned with the design of a management control system whose functional elements execute cognitive tasks of analysis, decision and control of the organization...

Chapter XI presents results, analyses, and conclusions about the industrial case study. From a micro perspective, it presents findings of the management control system of the...

Analyses and predictions about the implications of cognitive machines for organizations are a topic of further research which demands a high level of imagination in connection...

The major contributions of this chapter are concerned with: a. Analysis of the limitations of past and current manufacturing organizations (and operations management systems). b....

This chapter contributes by proposing the definition, the structure and the processes of Computational Organization Management Networks (COMN) which are new organizations whose...

This book has provided many contributions to the concepts of organizational cognition and cognitive machines, but most importantly, we have to acknowledge that this work has put...