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How consumers search for information online: A focus group investigation

Luck, Edwina M. - 2003

Research on Internet usage focuses on enjoyment, fun and service encounters provided most focus group participants with pleasurable experiences. However, in this exploratory research four focus groups were conducted to determine other factors. Recruits came from a mixture of undergraduate...

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Fractals, Attractors and the Quantum Self: A New Lexicon for HRM

Tywoniak, Stephane; Whiteley, Alma - 2006

This conceptual paper investigates how the metaphorical use of concepts from complexity theory may impact the way we …, borrowed from complexity theory are presented. Fractal thinking allows self-similarity through the constants of initial …

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A model of project complexity : distinguishing dimensions of complexity from severity

Remington, Kaye; Zolin, Roxanne; Turner, Rodney - 2009

There is increasing agreement that understanding complexity is important for project management because of difficulties … associated with decision-making and goal attainment which appear to stem from complexity. However the current operational … complexity can be measured in a robust manner that takes account of structural, dynamic and interaction elements. Thematic …

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Sometimes Less is More: Are Process Modeling Languages Overly Complex?

zur Muehlen, Michael; Recker, Jan C.; Indulska, Marta - 2007

accompanied by an increase in language complexity. In practice many organizations choose to only use a subset of the available … restriction affects the expressiveness and complexity of the resulting modeling vocabulary. We compare our empirical findings with …

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The Exchange Commons

Liebenau, Jonathan; de Fontenay, Alain Bourdeau - 2006

"While the conditions of production give some guidance to what factor groupings are desirable ceteris paribus, they do not determine the boundaries of a neoclassical firm (a legal entity with a residual claimant). Indeed, they could just as well be related to other groupings, such as...

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Network Governance of the Commons

Carlsson, Lars; Sandström, Annica - 2006

"The survival of the commons is closely associated with the potential to find ways to strengthen contemporary management systems, making them more responsive to a number of complexities, like the dynamics of ecosystems and related, but often fragmented, institutions. A discussion on the...

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Complex systems and economic development

Yoguel, Gabriel; Robert, Verónica; Erbes, Analía - 2008

This paper is based on an application of complex systems' approach toeconomics with the objective of explaining the micro, meso andmacroeconomic mechanisms of development. The complex systems' approachmakes it possible to tackle the problem of evolution and economicdevelopment under conditions...

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